Decision and Structure
U.S. Refugee Policy and the Mariel Crisis
Published on 13. November 1991
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-0-8191-8389-7 (ISBN)
Description
The 1980 Cuban influx represented a unique challenge to federal refugee policy mechanisms and to prevalent concepts of policy analysis and evaluation. The persistence of unworkable policies across two Presidential administrations suggests that organizational, structural, and decisional rather than personality or motivational factors were principally determinative of policy failure. This work suggests elements of a causal theory based on these factors, and a mode of normative evaluation based on mixed analytical strategies that attend to both decisional process and institutional structure.
Reviews / Votes
...a well-written and well-documented case study of the Mariel boat lift and refugee crisis of 1980 and the disjointed performance of the United States government during that crisis...Particularly impressive was the author's well-explored attention toand documentation of structural difficulties, bureaucratic mistakes, and presidential missteps that occurred during the crisis. -- James A. Regalado, California State University ...a well-written and well-documented case study of the Mariel boat lift and refugee crisis of 1980 and the disjointed performance of the United States government during that crisis...Particularly impressive was the author's well-explored attention to and documentation of structural difficulties, bureaucratic mistakes, and presidential missteps that occurred during the crisis. -- James A. Regalado, California State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8191-8389-7 (9780819183897)
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Person
Mario A. Rivera is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut.