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  • Chapter 1. The Argument ; Part I. Critique ; Chapter 2. Administrative Due Process ; Barriers to Hearings ; Hearing Procedures ; Hearings in Context ; Administrative Hearings ; References ; Chapter 3. Special Education and Adversarial Advocacy ; Substantive Criteria: Eligibility, Treatment, and Discretion ; The Macro-Bureaucratic Context ; P.L. 94-142 Procedures ; Parent-School Interactions ; The Due Process Experience in Special Education ; The Failure of Due Process ; References ; Chapter 4. Special Education and Cooperative Decision Making
  • Substantive Issues for Decision and the Need for New Models An Alternative to the Adversary System: The Cooperative Model ; How the System Works ; Problems in Maintaining the Cooperative System: Constraints and Conditions ; Conclusions: Cooperative Decision Making and the Constraints of Ideology ; Dynamic Models ; References ; Chapter 5. Adversarial Advocacy: Reform or Reconstruction?; Due Process Values ; Another Try at Liberalism: The Dignitary Theorists ; The Rise and Fall of Liberal Legalism ; Individualism in Cooperative Relationships ; Reform or Reconstruction? ; References
  • Part II. Construction Chapter 6. A Theory of Public Action ; Discretion in Context ; The Paradox of Federal Intervention and Increased Local Responsibility ; Field Level Discretion: Structure and Context ; A Creative View of Discretion ; A Theory of Public Action ; An Application ; Conclusion ; References ; Chapter 7. Organizational Change ; Organizations: Characteristics ; Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open ; Organizational Change: Environments ; ""Inside"" the Organization: Goals, Power, and Authority ; Schools as Organizations ; Implications ; References
  • Chapter 8. Social Movement Groups What Are Social Movement Groups? ; Incentives: Formation and Maintenance of Groups ; External Support: Advocacy, Cooperation, Cooptation ; Social Movement Organizations and Their Members ; Intermediate Groups, Liberalism, and the Administrative State ; References ; Chapter 9. Social Autonomy ; Informed Consent in Medical Ethics ; The Critique of Liberalism ; The Conditions of Discretion Compared ; References ; Index