Decisionmaking, Administrative Decentralization, and Feedback Mechanisms: Comparisons of Soviet and Western Models Available to Purchase

DONALD V. SCHWARTZ is Associate Professor of Political Science and Assistant to the Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where he wrote his dissertation on adaptations of social control theory in the Soviet Union. He is the author of a number of articles and book reviews in such journals as American Political Science Review, Journal of Comparative Administration, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Slavic Review, and Canadian Slavonic Papers. Professor Schwartz is currently doing research on the development of Soviet administrative theory, including a case study examining the relationship between administration theory and practice, and is editing one volume in The CPSU in Resolutions and Decisions series. The article in this issue of the journal grew out of his field work as an exchange student at Moscow State University during the academic year 1967-1968.