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Download full textCook, James B. – 1976
Presenting models describing a monolithic power structure, a pluralist power structure, and variations of these, this paper asserts that the monolithic power structure traditionally associated with rural areas is no longer valid for rural development. It is suggested that the following decision making mandate would serve as a better touch stone…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decision Making, Essays, Leadership
Blakely, Edward J. – 1984
The major features previously used to define rural life now fail to describe much of rural America, as changes that place rural areas in the vanguard of American society are manifest in rural landscape, institutions, economic activity, and life. The principal policy thrusts of modernization and urbanization and the related theories of product…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Decision Making, Economic Development, Emerging Occupations
Miller, James P. – 1987
Independent (single-establishment) businesses with fewer than 100 employees accounted for 31% of the net increase in private nonfarm jobs in nonmetropolitan areas between 1976 and 1980, when the nation's employment was expanding rapidly. Those independent businesses which were in operation less than 5 years in 1980 created jobs at a net rate of…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. – 1974
The 9 papers in this compilation on rural industrial development are titled as follows: (1) "U.S. Employment Shifts Through 1985" (gains, regional losses, relation to per capita income and economic activities, geographic concentration, and national basis of regional projections); (2) "Large Industry in a Rural Area: Demographic,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Planning, Decision Making, Economic Change
Inayatullah, C., Ed. – 1976
A 10-day seminar for senior government officials concerned with making rural development policies in selected Asian countries focused on programs adopted by various Asian governments to tackle rural development problems. To compare various approaches, seven indicators of rural development were used: agricultural productivity; rural employment;…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Community Involvement, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
Voth, Donald E., Comp.; And Others – 1977
The result of extensive research by the Southern Rural Development Center Functional Network on Citizen Participation in Rural Development, this bibliography contains 2,310 citations on citizen participation, 530 of which carry an annotation or abstract. Materials come from computerized information services, published bibliographies, and books or…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Books
