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Lutz, Frank W. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1982
Part of a special issue on organizational research utilization, this article discusses loose coupling and "garbage can" theories of higher education administration, applies a political anthropological model of "anarchy without chaos" to three episodes in university administration, and concludes that universities are tightly…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Anthropology, Case Studies, College Administration
Lutz, Frank W. – 1974
Attention to the politics of education particularly as operated within urban school boards using the concept of elite-arena councils is drawn in this paper. A brief summary of the data and the political-anthropological concepts used to analyze the data, conclusions and recommendations based on those data, and their analysis are presented. The…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Lutz, Frank W. – 1977
This chapter discusses the importance of political power in educational decision-making and examines in turn methods of gathering data for political analyses and types of conceptual models that are useful in studying the politics of education. Five methods for gathering political data are reviewed, including survey analysis, reputational analysis,…
Descriptors: Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Lutz, Frank W. – 1979
The dean selection process and its relationship to the political process of governance in higher education institutions are discussed. Data were collected from 31 institutions that were in the process of selecting a dean. Questionnaires were sent to selection committee chairpersons and members, and to the deans who were eventually selected. A…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Governing Councils, Committees
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Lutz, Frank W.; Gresson III, Aaron – Educational Studies, 1980
Presents ethnographic analyses of two school boards which are characterized by their decision-making processes. One is described as elite (conflict exists between the board and the dominant need of the public), the other as arena (representative segments of the public conflict with one another). (KC)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Anthropology
Lutz, Frank W. – 1976
This paper examines the political behavior of local school boards in terms of two models of political governance. The first model discussed is the "sacred vs. secular" model that distinguishes between "sacred" governing bodies that reach consensus in private and generally support the sociocultural status quo and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lutz, Frank W. – Education and Urban Society, 1980
Focuses on school boards as sociocultural systems. Asserts that boards' decision-making processes operate within a cultural context and have, over the centuries of their existence, developed a culture of their own. Proposes that culture dictates a decision-making output that is not as responsive or immediate as would be expected. (Author/MK)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Cultural Influences, Decision Making
Lutz, Frank W.; Iden, Robert M. – 1994
As Texas public schools undertake their third year of implementing site-based decision making (SBDM), it becomes increasingly important to examine the extent to which SBDM has achieved its purported goals. This paper examined how Texas public school districts might effect mandated governance changes through the political phenomenon known as…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation
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Lutz, Frank W. – Planning and Changing - A Journal for School Administrators, 1971
A position paper that looks at educational accountability from the viewpoint of the historian, the anthropologist, the political scientist, and the sociologist. The author is not optimistic about the future of accountability as a functional output nor as a process to improve education. (JF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, Bureaucracy, Community Control
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Wang, Lee-Yen; Lutz, Frank W. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1989
Examined is the assertion by Douglas Mitchell that the dissatisfaction theory be abandoned because it has not been able to predict the political upheavals it described. Reported is the first incumbent defeat as well as suggestions on why prediction should not be the only goal for a social/political theory. (24 references) (SI)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Educational Theories
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Lutz, Frank W. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1996
Summarizes the viability of the vulnerability thesis as a tool in accounting for school superintendent behavior today, suggesting how the thesis can be built on in order to better understand the political world of superintendency. The paper suggests some social and political theories that might extend the thesis, further clarifying the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Lutz, Frank W.; Hess, Paula K. – 1982
Survey and observational research on educational lobbying organizations in the Pennsylvania state legislature yielded both data on influence processes and a set of seven guidelines for educational lobbyists. A survey of Pennsylvania legislators at the 1973-74 session examined their attitudes about education bills, educational lobbies and their…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Legislators
Lutz, Frank W.; McDonnell, Thomas F. – 1980
One purpose of this paper was to describe the present process of machine government and private-regarding practices in local school government. Another purpose was to theorize from these data, based on selected conceptual notions, about the political process in educational governance. Data for the study came from a Pennsylvania superintendent…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Theories, Governance, Political Influences
Lutz, Frank W.; Iannaccone, Laurence – 1986
Raymond Callahan's superintendent vulnerability thesis suggests that school superintendent behavior is subject to the political winds of local school boards, in turn dominated by the economic values of American businessmen. This thesis inspired a body of research termed "dissatisfaction theory," which describes the sequence of events…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Elitism
Lutz, Frank W.; Barlow, Donald A. – 1980
The vast majority of American Indian students are educated in public school districts controlled by locally elected school boards. If Indian parents are to influence the education of their children they must become knowledgeable in political methods of influencing local school boards. The process of Indian influence in educational decisions was…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role
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