Ideology and the Reagan Administration's First National Urban Policy Report
- 31 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Planning Association
- Vol. 50 (4) , 479-484
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01944368408976780
Abstract
This article describes the process that yielded the president's 1982 National Urban Policy Report, stressing the role that ideology played in the resulting policy. Issues discussed include the role of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the policy formulation process, and the administration's response to a law that is antithetical to its governing philosophy. The article concludes that the national urban policy reports are useful for explaining an administration's general approach to urban policy, but the reports are not action documents. For them to become so, the responsibility for preparing the reports must be shifted from a single agency to the White House.Keywords
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