The National Special-Education Advocacy Community
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
- Vol. 4 (1) , 97-111
- https://doi.org/10.1177/027112148400400112
Abstract
Numerous nationally organized interest groups attempt to influence federal special-education policy. This article focuses on the predominant federal policy, the program authorized by P.L. 94–142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and on the primary organized coalition lobbying federally on this issue, the Consortium for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (CCDD). Common data bases for interest-group comparison are used, and the topic is approached from the political-interest-group theory first articulated by Arthur F. Bentley in 1908, in The Process of Government.Keywords
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