Burton Gummer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4401312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Burton Gummer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Burton |
| FAMILY NAME | Gummer |
| SIGNATURE | GUMMER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | a School of Social Welfare, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, The University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making Politics and Power Respectable
Organizational Change
No abstract available for this article
Rethinking Organizations
No abstract available for this article
False Alarm
On Helping and Helplessness
As the American welfare system becomes more extensive in scope, the issue of clients' rights is of increasing concern. One index to the power balance between social agencies and their clients is the amount of discretionary decision making granted to the workers. This article examines three major sources of discretion — weak legislative mandates, social work theories and ideologies, and the nature of the worker-client interaction — and discusses t…
A Power-Politics Approach to Social Welfare Organizations
The analysis of social welfare organizations has been hampered by the lack of an appropriate conceptual framework. Existing paradigms for organizational analysis, most notably the "rational" and "natural-system" approaches, have serious shortcomings when applied to social welfare organizations because of the assump- tions they make. This article presents a third, the "power-politics" approach, which overcomes many of the limitations of the other …
The Interorganizational Relationships of a Public Welfare Agency
The American social welfare field is best characterized as a highly decentralized sphere of activity in which autonomous organizations define and pursue their goals in a fairly independent fashion. The complex nature of modern social problems, however, requires concerted action by a variety of organizations if effective solutions are to be developed. This conflict between the structural nature of the welfare field and the demands of the problems …
Rethinking Organizations
No abstract available for this article
On Helping and Helplessness
As the American welfare system becomes more extensive in scope, the issue of clients' rights is of increasing concern. One index to the power balance between social agencies and their clients is the amount of discretionary decision making granted to the workers. This article examines three major sources of discretion — weak legislative mandates, social work theories and ideologies, and the nature of the worker-client interaction — and discusses t…
A Power-Politics Approach to Social Welfare Organizations
The analysis of social welfare organizations has been hampered by the lack of an appropriate conceptual framework. Existing paradigms for organizational analysis, most notably the "rational" and "natural-system" approaches, have serious shortcomings when applied to social welfare organizations because of the assump- tions they make. This article presents a third, the "power-politics" approach, which overcomes many of the limitations of the other …
Organizational Change
No abstract available for this article
The Interorganizational Relationships of a Public Welfare Agency
The American social welfare field is best characterized as a highly decentralized sphere of activity in which autonomous organizations define and pursue their goals in a fairly independent fashion. The complex nature of modern social problems, however, requires concerted action by a variety of organizations if effective solutions are to be developed. This conflict between the structural nature of the welfare field and the demands of the problems …
A Power-Politics Approach to Social Welfare Organizations
The analysis of social welfare organizations has been hampered by the lack of an appropriate conceptual framework. Existing paradigms for organizational analysis, most notably the "rational" and "natural-system" approaches, have serious shortcomings when applied to social welfare organizations because of the assump- tions they make. This article presents a third, the "power-politics" approach, which overcomes many of the limitations of the other …
On Helping and Helplessness
As the American welfare system becomes more extensive in scope, the issue of clients' rights is of increasing concern. One index to the power balance between social agencies and their clients is the amount of discretionary decision making granted to the workers. This article examines three major sources of discretion — weak legislative mandates, social work theories and ideologies, and the nature of the worker-client interaction — and discusses t…
False Alarm
Rethinking Organizations
No abstract available for this article
Organizational Change
No abstract available for this article
Making Politics and Power Respectable
Business (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Welfare (4 works) · Welfare (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Power (physics (3 works)