A01=Charles R. Epp
accountability
Author_Charles R. Epp
bureaucracy
Category=JPP
Category=JPVH
Category=LNDC
civil rights
discrimination
employee training
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government
history
law enforcement
laws
lawsuits
legal system
liability
nonfiction
oversight
playground safety
police brutality
politics
profiling
publicity
racial bias
racism
reform
regulation
rules
torts
workplace sexual harassment
Product details
- ISBN 9780226211657
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2010
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. Charles R. Epp argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies, which in the 1970s helped bring recalcitrant bureaucracies in line with a growing national commitment to civil rights and individual dignity. Focusing on three disparate policy areas - workplace sexual harassment, playground safety, and police brutality in both the United States and the United Kingdom - Epp explains how activists and professionals used legal liability, lawsuit-generated publicity, and innovative managerial ideas to pursue the implementation of new rights. Together, these strategies resulted in frameworks designed to make institutions accountable through intricate rules, employee training, and managerial oversight. Explaining how these practices became ubiquitous across bureaucratic organizations, Epp casts today's legalistic state in an entirely new light.
Charles R. Epp is associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.
