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Engstrom, David Freeman.

The lost origins of American fair employment law: State fair employment practices bureaus and the politics of regulatory design, 1943--1964.

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Title/Author:	The lost origins of American fair employment law: State fair employment practices bureaus and the politics of regulatory design, 1943--1964.
Author:	Engstrom, David Freeman.
Description:	475 p.
Notes:	Director: Susan Rose-Ackerman.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4167.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194648
ISBN:	9780542385070

The lost origins of American fair employment law: State fair employment practices bureaus and the politics of regulatory design, 1943--1964.
Engstrom, David Freeman.

The lost origins of American fair employment law: State fair employment practices bureaus and the politics of regulatory design, 1943--1964. - 475 p.

Director: Susan Rose-Ackerman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

On the eve of congressional passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, more than twenty northern states had already enacted laws prohibiting job discrimination and had set up elaborate administrative schemes to enforce the new rights. Yet states also differed substantially, both in the substantive provisions of the new laws and in the design of the new fair employment bureaus created to implement them. By interrogating the political and other conditions that drove state-level design decisions at the dawn of American fair employment law, this dissertation pursues three broad aims. First, it provides a descriptive account of the politics of fair employment prior to 1964. In so doing, this dissertation joins the ranks of a number of scholars who have sought to move beyond debates about the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education---and, in particular, the relative efficacy of legal and political mobilization---and begun to excavate earlier civil rights struggles in the years clustered around World War II. Second, by understanding why some states opted to create dynamic bureaucratic forms, and most others highly anemic ones, this dissertation sheds critical light on the later evolution of American fair employment law---and, in particular, the emergence of a cluster of "affirmative action" policies in the later 1960s and 1970s. A third strand of this dissertation links the creation of state fair employment bureaus to broader debates among political scientists and legal scholars about the politics of regulatory design and, in particular, whether and how political actors use bureaucratic design mechanisms to guide the implementation of public policy by unelected bureaucrats. The substantial variance across states in the design of the new bureaus provides an untapped comparative context in which to test and extend existing theories.

ISBN: 9780542385070Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

The lost origins of American fair employment law: State fair employment practices bureaus and the politics of regulatory design, 1943--1964.
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