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Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 17, Number 2 (SPRING, 1993): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1993-04-01) Bechtel, Laura L.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 17, Number 2 (SPRING, 1993): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1993-04-01) Worrell, Mark P.Publication Research Note: Impersonal Decision-Making as a Fradudulent Ideology(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1993-04-01) Remender, Peter A.As a young sociologist, I had come to believe that formal organizations were for the most part bureaucratic structures and that Bureaucratization offers above all the optimum possibility for carrying through the principle of specializing administrative functions according to purely objective considerations." (Gerth and Mills 1946:215). My expectations were that people evaluating others would look objectively at the evidence and render an equitable decision, that is, that they would actually be impersonal decision-makers. Over the years I have found this not always to be the casc. Since sociologists are dealing with probability statements, it is possible to conclude that one has become overly attentive to the exceptions to the rule. Perhaps, one has taken note of a "privale trouble" and there is no basis to make a "public issue" out of a few cases (see Mills, 1962:295-402). Since this writer has had over twenty years of experience as a faculty member at a mid-western university. it is possible to examine the "issue" empirically by reference to individual cases. Having embarked upon that task, some effort was made to cross check the findings against cases outside the university experience.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 17, Number 2 (SPRING, 1993): Front Matter(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1993-04-01)Publication Detroit's Urban Regime: Composition and Consequence(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1993-04-01) Hall, Leda Mclntyre; Hall, Melvin F.This article examines the urban regime in Detroit, Michigan, specifically examining how the regime makes decisions about redevelopment and major capital projects. Detroit's urban regime, which emergedfrom the urban unrest of the 1960s, mobilizes resources, promotes cooperation, and manages conflicts between public and private interests to facilitate and justify redevelopment. Although political decision makers are represented in the regime, we argue that the business community's influence is pervasive, visible. and overwhelming. The participants in Detroit's regime are more adversarial and disrespectful of local political entities than regimes previously studied. Regimes may warp democratic processes to accommodate business interests because the financial decisions of economic institutions reverberate throughout the local political economy.Publication Disputing in Organizations Dispute Domains and Conflict Process(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1993-04-01) Miller, Gale