State administrators' opinions on administrative change, federal aid, federal relationships

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Highlights. The Impact of the Proposition 13 Mood = 1
• Agency Priorities, Innovations, Interstate Evaluations = 2
• The Federal Government's Impact = 2
• Chapter 1. State Agency Heads and Administrative Change : Service Levels, Program Shifts, Sources of Innovation, and Interstate Evaluations = 5
• Service Levels : Administrative Aggrandizement? = 6
• Shifting Program Priorities = 8
• Sources of Program Innovation = 9
• Sources in State Government = 9
• Intergovernmental Sources = 10
• Extra-Governmental Sources = 10
• Interstate Comparisons and Evaluations = 11
• Analysis of Administrative Change : Agency Differences by Functional Categories = 13
• Service Levels : Satisfaction vs. Expansion = 14
• Shifts in Program Priorities = 15
• Sources of New Ideas = 19
• Chapter 2. Federal Aid from the Perspective of State Agency Heads : Preferences, Policies, Involvement, and Issues = 21
• Preferences for Federal Aid Types = 22
• Federal Aid to Local Governments : State Administrators' Views = 25
• Federal Aid Involvement : Complexity, Diversity, and Dependency = 26
• Dependency = 27
• Diversity = 27
• Composite Federal Aid Involvement Measure = 27
• Federal Aid Policy Preferences and Administrative Issues = 28
• Policy Preferences = 29
• Administrative Issues = 30
• Analysis of Relationships : Agency Functional Categories and Federal Aid Involvement = 32
• Federal Aid Involvement = 32
• Federal Aid Funding Levels = 32
• General Revenue Sharing(GRS) = 33
• Federal Aid to Local Governments = 34
• Federal Aid Policy Preferences = 35
• Federal Aid Administrative Issues = 36
• Chapter 3. State Agency Heads and Federal Relationships : State-Federal Contacts and Perceptions of Federal Impacts = 39
• Upward Contacts of State Administrators = 40
• Federal Agencies as Points of Contact = 42
• The Federal Courts and State Agencies = 43
• Analysis of State Administrators' Upward Contacts = 43
• Receipt of Federal Aid and Contacts = 43
• State Agency Functional Category and Contacts = 45
• Federal Impacts : Interference, Intrusion, Involvement = 47
• Federal Interference = 48
• Federal Intrusion =49
• Federal Involvement = 51
• Analysis of Federal Impacts = 53
• Federal Interference = 53
• Federal Intrusion = 54
• Perceived and Preferred Federal Involvement = 57
• Appendix. American State Administrators Project(ASAP) = 61
• Agency Codes for State Agencies, 1974 and 1978 Mail Surveys = 61
• Agency Function Categories = 63
• Tables
• 1. State Administrators' Attitudes toward the Expansion of State Programs and Expenditures : Own Agency and Overall State Programs／Outlays, 1964, 1968, 1974, and 1978 = 7
• 2. Extent of Changes in Program Priorities Reported by State Administrators, 1974 and 1978 = 8
• 3. Sources from Which Initiatives Come for Program Changes = 8
• 4. Sources of New Ideas for Program Improvement = 9
• 5. Program Evaluation Comparisons and Consultation Contacts by State Agency Heads among the 50 States = 12
• 6. State Administrators' Attitudes toward Expansion of State Programs, by Agency Functional Category, 1978 = 14
• 7. State Administrators' Attitudes toward Expansion of Own Agency's Programs, by Agency Functional Category, 1978 = 15
• 8. Extent of Change in Program Priorities, by Agency Functional Category = 16
• 9. Sources of Initiatives for Change in Program Priorities, by Agency Functional Category = 17
• 10. Sources of New Ideas for Program Improvement, by Agency Functional Category = 18
• 11. Evaluation of Federal Aid Funding Levels, by Type of Aid, 1974 and 1978 = 22
• 12. Rank of Types of Federal Aid on Various Criteria = 23
• 13. Impact of Federal Aid to Local Governments on Local and State Fiscal Efforts - As Perceived by State Agency Heads, 1978 = 25
• 14. Federal Aid Complexity : Number and Types of Federal Aid Received by State Agencies, 1974 and 1978 = 26
• 15. Federal Aid Diversity : Number of Federal Agencies from Which State Agencies Received Aid, 1974 and 1978 = 27
• 16. State Agency Dependency on Federal Aid, Selected Years, 1964-78 = 28
• 17. Composite Federal Aid Involvement Scores for State Agencies, 1974 and 1978 = 28
• 18. Preferences of State Agency Heads on Federal Aid Policy Issues, 1974 and 1978 = 29
• 19. Perceptions of Federal Aid Uncertainty = 31
• 20. Federal Aid Funding Preferences of State Agency Heads : Level of Aid, by Agency Functional Category and Composite Federal Aid Involvement Measure, 1978 = 32
• 21. Attitudes on General Revenue Sharing of State Agency Heads, by Agency Functional Category and Composite Federal Aid Involvement Measure, 1978 = 33
• 22. State Agency Heads' Attitudes on Federal Aid to Local Governments, by Agency Functional Category and Composite Federal Aid Involvement Measure, 1978 = 34
• 23. Federal Aid Policy Preferences of State Agency Heads, by Agency Functional Category and Composite Federal Aid Involvement Measure, 1978 = 36
• 24. Federal Aid Administrative Issues, by Agency Functional Category and Composite Federal Aid Involvement Measure, 1978 = 37
• 25. Frequency of State Administrators' Downward and Horizontal Contacts, 1978 = 41
• 26. Frequency of State Administrators' Upward Contacts, 1974 and 1978 = 41
• 27. Federal Agencies Most Frequently Contacted by State Agency Heads = 42
• 28. Federal Agencies Most Frequently Contacted by Administrators of Agencies Receiving and Not Receiving Federal Aid = 44
• 29. Frequency of State Administrators' Upward Contact, by Agency Functional Category, 1978 = 45
• 30. Federal Agencies Most Frequently Contacted by State Administrators, by Agency Functional Category = 47
• 31. Preference for Reallocating Federal Aid If the Aid was Without "Strings" = 49
• 32. Agency Autonomy from Governor and Legislature in Federally Financed Activities : State Administrators' Perceptions, 1964-78 = 51
• 33. Federal Involvement in Decisions and Activities of State Agencies = 52
• 34. Attitudes toward Federal Aid Interference, by Agency Functional Category = 53
• 35. Attitudes toward Federal Aid Interference, by Composite Federal Aid Scores = 54
• 36. Attitudes toward Fiscal Intrusion, by Agency Functional Category = 55
• 37. Attitudes toward Fiscal Intrusion, by Composite Federal Aid Scores = 55
• 38. Federal Involvement in Decisions and Activities of State Agencies, Perceived and Preferred Involvement, by Agency Functional Category = 58
• 39. Federal Involvement in Decisions and Activities of State Agencies, Perceived and Preferred Involvement, by Composite Federal Aid Scores = 59