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Dilemmas of human service reform in New Haven: integrating three levels of organizational analysis

Dilemmas of human service reform in New Haven: integrating three levels of organizational analysis Contemporary Drug Problems/Summer 1995 Dilemmas of human service reform in New Haven: integrating three levels of organizational analysis BY PAUL JOHNSTON, MICHAEL ROWE, AND PATRICK SWIFT Paul Johnston is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at Yale University (140 Prospect St., 1965 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520). He studies public organizations and is the author of the recent book Success While Others Fail. Michael Rowe and Patrick Swift are sociology doctoral students at Yale University. Recent research on persistent inner-city poverty, crime and substance abuse acknowledges the effects of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, but it stresses that these effects are compounded by the isolation of poor neighbor­ hoods from social networks linked to the labor market (Wil­ son, 1987; Harrell and Petersen, 1992). In contrast, an earlier tradition of research on efforts to alleviate inner-city poverty emphasized the independent effects of public and nonprofit organizations, concluding that the very agencies charged with urban service reform were the main obstacles to that goal © 1995 by Federal Legal Publications. Inc. 364 DILEMMAS OF HUMAN SERVICE REFORM (Warren, Rose and Begrunder, 1974). This work also empha­ sized the importance of a widely taken-for-granted "paradigm of poverty," which helped to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Drug Problems SAGE

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Contemporary Drug Problems/Summer 1995 Dilemmas of human service reform in New Haven: integrating three levels of organizational analysis BY PAUL JOHNSTON, MICHAEL ROWE, AND PATRICK SWIFT Paul Johnston is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at Yale University (140 Prospect St., 1965 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520). He studies public organizations and is the author of the recent book Success While Others Fail. Michael Rowe and Patrick Swift are sociology doctoral students at Yale University. Recent research on persistent inner-city poverty, crime and substance abuse acknowledges the effects of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, but it stresses that these effects are compounded by the isolation of poor neighbor­ hoods from social networks linked to the labor market (Wil­ son, 1987; Harrell and Petersen, 1992). In contrast, an earlier tradition of research on efforts to alleviate inner-city poverty emphasized the independent effects of public and nonprofit organizations, concluding that the very agencies charged with urban service reform were the main obstacles to that goal © 1995 by Federal Legal Publications. Inc. 364 DILEMMAS OF HUMAN SERVICE REFORM (Warren, Rose and Begrunder, 1974). This work also empha­ sized the importance of a widely taken-for-granted "paradigm of poverty," which helped to

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