First Advisor

Sheldon M. Edner

Term of Graduation

Winter 1985

Date of Publication

2-1-1985

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Political Science

Department

Political Science

Language

English

Subjects

United States. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act

DOI

10.15760/etd.5428

Physical Description

1 online resource (2, v, 147 pages)

Abstract

This thesis was intended to delineate the factors contributing to the formulation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) of 1973--a unique attempt at overhauling federal employment and training policy as well as one of the early efforts at devolving control over grants-in-aid to the subnational level.

Information was obtained from the literature on this policy area, plus documentary sources; such as records of Congressional hearings. From this information, an analytical framework was developed, in which factors contributing to the formulation were classified as; contextual, ideological and those in the form of actors' objectives.

It was found that CETA was the outcome of a broad compromise among the beliefs and objectives of actors, occurring in a particular historical context. Those favoring devolution of program control to subnational governments (including the Nixon Administration, state and local governments and business groups) achieved this basic goal. However, the efforts of unions, educators, anti-poverty organizations and others to retain federal targeting on certain client groups (as was common in the 1960s) were partly successful. A federal commitment to public service employment was also reaffirmed. The result was that the Act shifted employment and training policy significantly away from the 1960s approach and opened the delivery system to new providers and clients, who would be determined largely at the discretion of elected state and local government officials.

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