Lewis Anthony Dexter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis Anthony Dexter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Dexter |
| SIGNATURE | DEXTER L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Complexities of corruption
Intra-Agency Politics Conflict and Contravention in Administrative Entities
This paper develops the notion of political process within administrative entities; it rests particularly upon the work of Arthur F. Bentley but is also much influenced by the political concerns of the early Herbert Simon; it extends, also, Francis Rourke's consideration of bureaucratic politics. It is analogous to the application of Bentley's approach to legislative processes by Bertram Gross, David Truman, and naturally especially Lewis A. Dext…
On the Use of Private Interest in Public Programs
Undesigned Consequences of Purposive Legislative Action
This paper is an attempt to make more specific the familiar sociological notion of the ‘unanticipated consequences of social action’. Reasons for the relative neglect by practitioners and analysts of the side-effects of legislative action are suggested. The discussion of unintended and unanticipated social action is related to the work of classic sociologists, to theorists of diffusion, and to the study of innovations and inventions. Previous stu…
Marketers, not donors
Court Politics
The conception of court politics provides an alternative to classic notions of bureau cracy. Many staffs in large organizations are expected to operate in contradistinction to bureaucratic norms—to carry out the wishes of the top man, to fit his purposes, conveniences, and so on. Courts may often be necessary; at any rate, they are often inevitable, simply because of the leaders' convictions that they must have "instru ments" and the fact that th…
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940
How "Relevant" Is Graduate Study in Political Science
Book Notes
Journal Article BOOK NOTES Get access Suzanne Farkas. Urban Lobbying. Mayors in the Federal Arena. New York: New York University Press, 1971 335. $7.95. Lewis Anthony Dexter Lewis Anthony Dexter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 1972, Pages 155–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038252 Published: 01 January 1972
Elite and specialized interviewing.
Interviewing
How organizations are represented in Washington.
Beyond Economics
Impressions About Utility and Wastefulness in Applied Social Science Studies
Proposals to end "boondoggling" in social science research are presented by the author, co-winner of the Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book in Political Science in 1963, American Business and Public Policy, and a lecturer in social science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
On Book Reviewing— and Similar Pedestrian Activities
The Tyranny of Schooling
People, Society, and Mass Communications
On the Use and Abuse of Social Science by Practitioners
Professor Dexter asserts that practitioners must learn to overcome the tendency to make only those observations and draw only those con clusions that can be pressed into simplistic and fashionable theoretical frames. He shows that the sociology of occupations is a perspective that is especially useful to practitioners, though largely ignored, and he urges that practitioners take up an interest in the now unfashionable but relevant area of politic…
American Business and Public Policy. The Politics of Foreign Trade
American Business and Public Policy is a study of the politics of foreign trade. It challenges fifty years of writ-ing on pressure politics. It includes nine hundred interviews with heads of corporations, including 166 of the 200 largest corporations; another 500 interviews with congressmen, lob-byists, journalists, and opinion leaders; and eight community studies making this book the most intensive survey in print of the politics of business. It…
People, society, and mass communications.
The Good Will of Important People
Journal Article THE GOOD WILL OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE: MORE ON THE JEOPARDY OF THE INTERVIEW Get access LEWIS A. DEXTER LEWIS A. DEXTER Lewis Anthony Dexter is co-editor of People, Society, and Mass Communications Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 4, WINTER 1964, Pages 556–563, https://doi.org/10.1086/267279 Published: 01 January 1964
Dear FDR
More Fallout on Shelters
VS. Waskow On Civil Defense Plans
On the Politics and Sociology of Stupidity in Our Society
Journal Article On the Politics and Sociology of Stupidity in Our Society Get access Lewis Anthony Dexter Lewis Anthony Dexter * 536 Pleasant Street Belmont 78, Massachusetts *Free-lance consultant. Financial aid was provided in the preparation of this paper by the Kate Jackson Anthony Trust of Lewiston, Maine; I also am grateful to Michael Begab (U. S. Children's Bureau), Chairman of the Section of the American Association for Mental Deficiency …
Elite and specialized interviewing.
People, society, and mass communications.
How organizations are represented in Washington.
What Do Congressmen Hear
Journal Article What Do Congressmen Hear: The Mail Get access LEWIS ANTHONY DEXTER LEWIS ANTHONY DEXTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, SPRING 1956, Pages 16–27, https://doi.org/10.1086/266594 Published: 01 January 1956
The Representative and His District
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People, Society, and Mass Communications
The Good Will of Important People
Journal Article THE GOOD WILL OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE: MORE ON THE JEOPARDY OF THE INTERVIEW Get access LEWIS A. DEXTER LEWIS A. DEXTER Lewis Anthony Dexter is co-editor of People, Society, and Mass Communications Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 4, WINTER 1964, Pages 556–563, https://doi.org/10.1086/267279 Published: 01 January 1964
Dear FDR
On the Politics and Sociology of Stupidity in Our Society
Journal Article On the Politics and Sociology of Stupidity in Our Society Get access Lewis Anthony Dexter Lewis Anthony Dexter * 536 Pleasant Street Belmont 78, Massachusetts *Free-lance consultant. Financial aid was provided in the preparation of this paper by the Kate Jackson Anthony Trust of Lewiston, Maine; I also am grateful to Michael Begab (U. S. Children's Bureau), Chairman of the Section of the American Association for Mental Deficiency …
A Note on Selective Inattention in Social Science
Journal Article A Note on Selective Inattention in Social Science Get access Lewis Anthony Dexter Lewis Anthony Dexter Consultant, Sudler & Hennessey, Pharmaceutical Advertising Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 6, Issue 2, Autumn 1958, Pages 176–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/798889 Published: 08 August 2014
Role Relationships and Conceptions of Neutrality in Interviewing
It is commonly supposed that the interviewer should be "neutral" toward interviewee and topic. In fact, however, interviewers on many political and social subjects are identified by interviewees with values and opinions they think are characteristic of the former's real or supposed social group. Co-operation may be obtained by deliberately seeking to establish "neutrality on the interviewee's side" though using the interviewee's phraseology and o…
Recent Political Science Research in American Universities
This report is based upon a survey of research in progress in political science departments of American universities in the spring of 1950. Undertaken jointly by the Committee on Research of the American Political Science Association and the Division of Higher Education of the United States Office of Education, the survey was essentially an analysis of questionnaires sent to the chairmen of 112 departments of political science believed to be in a…
Intra-Agency Politics Conflict and Contravention in Administrative Entities
This paper develops the notion of political process within administrative entities; it rests particularly upon the work of Arthur F. Bentley but is also much influenced by the political concerns of the early Herbert Simon; it extends, also, Francis Rourke's consideration of bureaucratic politics. It is analogous to the application of Bentley's approach to legislative processes by Bertram Gross, David Truman, and naturally especially Lewis A. Dext…
Undesigned Consequences of Purposive Legislative Action
This paper is an attempt to make more specific the familiar sociological notion of the ‘unanticipated consequences of social action’. Reasons for the relative neglect by practitioners and analysts of the side-effects of legislative action are suggested. The discussion of unintended and unanticipated social action is related to the work of classic sociologists, to theorists of diffusion, and to the study of innovations and inventions. Previous stu…
The Tyranny of Schooling
Candidates Must Make the Issues and Give Them Meaning
The Spring issue of the Quarterly contained an article by Mr. Dexter on“ The Use of Public Opinion Polls by Political Party Organizations.” This article is a follow-up of that one. At the time this study was being undertaken, Mr. Dexter, formerly Elections Analyst for the Democratic National Committee, was employed by the Center for International Studies, MIT, and is now employed as a research consultant in political public relations and public p…
Complexities of corruption
Court Politics
The conception of court politics provides an alternative to classic notions of bureau cracy. Many staffs in large organizations are expected to operate in contradistinction to bureaucratic norms—to carry out the wishes of the top man, to fit his purposes, conveniences, and so on. Courts may often be necessary; at any rate, they are often inevitable, simply because of the leaders' convictions that they must have "instru ments" and the fact that th…
How "Relevant" Is Graduate Study in Political Science
The Sociology of Adjudication
Clinical psychologists, counsellors, and other professional people regularly pass judgment on others in the course of their day-to-day work, and generally they must do so on a hit-and-run, common sense basis. Lewis Dexter cites some cases of such adjudication affecting mental defectives, especially those who have been brought to the attention of the courts, and implies that revisions of practice are in order. The author has published a series of …
Where the Elephant Fears to Dance Among the Chickens
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lewis Dexter; Where the Elephant Fears to Dance Among the Chickens: Business in Politics? The Case of du Pont. Human Organization 1 December 1960; 19 (4): 188–194. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.19.4.b38l2501h7976873 Download citatio…
A Dialogue on the Social Psychology of Colonialism and on Certain Puerto Rican Professional Personality Patterns
People, Patriotism and Power Politics
An Attempt to Measure Change of Attitude
Administration of the Social Gospel
Journal Article ADMINISTRATION OF THE SOCIAL GOSPEL Get access LEWIS A. DEXTER LEWIS A. DEXTER Mr. Dexter, a graduate of the University of Chicago, will receive his master's degree in political science at Harvard this June. He is now a Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 1938, Pages 294–299, https://doi.org/10.1086/26…
The Legend of William Lloyd Garrison
An Attempt to Measure Change of Attitude
Causal Imputation and Purposes of Investigation
There is a considerable literature about causation. A great many investigators constantly employ the notion of causation in some form. But with the exception of a very few items, these investigators will find little of use in this literature
Science and Vagueness
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Anglo-Saxony and Its Tradition
We Didn't Ask Utopia
Implications of Supranational Federation
M t MANY persons advocate the formation of a democratic, federal, supranational government, during or immediately after the war. Most scholars who have studied the subject agree that there is no insuperable administrative, technical, or economic barrier to the establishment of such a government, if enough people want it, and if the Axis powers do not become too strong.2 It appears not impossible that enough persons will want it, but the history o…
People, Patriotism and Power Politics
O.P.A.; A Case Study in Liberal Priggishness
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lewis Dexter; O.P.A.; A Case Study in Liberal Priggishness. Human Organization 1 January 1945; 4 (1): 32–33. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.4.1.rt2m472848g06437 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers …
II. Political Processes and Judgments of Value
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Teaching Social Science as a Set of Skills
A Dialogue on the Social Psychology of Colonialism and on Certain Puerto Rican Professional Personality Patterns
Some Data for Studying the Supply of Psychologists
Some Data for Studying the Supply of Sociologists
Recent Political Science Research in American Universities
This report is based upon a survey of research in progress in political science departments of American universities in the spring of 1950. Undertaken jointly by the Committee on Research of the American Political Science Association and the Division of Higher Education of the United States Office of Education, the survey was essentially an analysis of questionnaires sent to the chairmen of 112 departments of political science believed to be in a…
The Use of Public Opinion Polls by Political Party Organizations
Although political organizations make use of published polls, the material is frequently of only limited use to them. In this paper the author describes the kind of information which a campaign organization needs, makes several proposals to existing polling organizations, and describes the kind of poll a political party could profitably commission
Candidates Must Make the Issues and Give Them Meaning
The Spring issue of the Quarterly contained an article by Mr. Dexter on“ The Use of Public Opinion Polls by Political Party Organizations.” This article is a follow-up of that one. At the time this study was being undertaken, Mr. Dexter, formerly Elections Analyst for the Democratic National Committee, was employed by the Center for International Studies, MIT, and is now employed as a research consultant in political public relations and public p…
What Do Congressmen Hear
Journal Article What Do Congressmen Hear: The Mail Get access LEWIS ANTHONY DEXTER LEWIS ANTHONY DEXTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, SPRING 1956, Pages 16–27, https://doi.org/10.1086/266594 Published: 01 January 1956
Role Relationships and Conceptions of Neutrality in Interviewing
It is commonly supposed that the interviewer should be "neutral" toward interviewee and topic. In fact, however, interviewers on many political and social subjects are identified by interviewees with values and opinions they think are characteristic of the former's real or supposed social group. Co-operation may be obtained by deliberately seeking to establish "neutrality on the interviewee's side" though using the interviewee's phraseology and o…
The Representative and His District
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lewis Dexter; The Representative and His District. Human Organization 1 March 1957; 16 (1): 2–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.16.1.x7657m41u6gv2220 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley P…
A Note on Selective Inattention in Social Science
Journal Article A Note on Selective Inattention in Social Science Get access Lewis Anthony Dexter Lewis Anthony Dexter Consultant, Sudler & Hennessey, Pharmaceutical Advertising Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 6, Issue 2, Autumn 1958, Pages 176–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/798889 Published: 08 August 2014
The Sociology of Adjudication
Clinical psychologists, counsellors, and other professional people regularly pass judgment on others in the course of their day-to-day work, and generally they must do so on a hit-and-run, common sense basis. Lewis Dexter cites some cases of such adjudication affecting mental defectives, especially those who have been brought to the attention of the courts, and implies that revisions of practice are in order. The author has published a series of …
Where the Elephant Fears to Dance Among the Chickens
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lewis Dexter; Where the Elephant Fears to Dance Among the Chickens: Business in Politics? The Case of du Pont. Human Organization 1 December 1960; 19 (4): 188–194. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.19.4.b38l2501h7976873 Download citatio…
Has the Public Official an Obligation to Restrict His Friendships
The public interest and tactical considerations require (and should require) a public official to control his friendships, though friendship as well as merit can and perhaps should be taken into consideration in political appointment. In general, the person in public life may find that he hears only one point of view from his friends; if he wishes to appear unbiased and be less biased he should deliberately include persons of divergent viewpoints…
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