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Racial transition in an inner suburb of the St. Louis, Mo, Metropolitan Area, is empirically examined. The characteristics of the study area are described, & a relationship is hyp'ed between race & the value of property. Sales price & assessed valuation for 1,030 single fam units representing 1,405 sales transactions were analyzed. The period from 1958 to 1967 was covered. A scale of "transition" was used from non-mild to substantial. Analysis shows that the diff between the relatively stable areas & the transition areas has decreased as the process of racial change has intensified. It is concluded that the housing market in the study area underwent some adjustment to racial transition during the period studied. Commencing in 1963, the expectation of non-white immigration to the area increased the willingness of persons in certain areas to put their property up for sale, ie, supply increased. In the short run, with relatively fixed white demand, this induced a relative decline in price as indicated by the indices between 1963 -- 64. Without an increase in the demand for housing, continued existence of an increased supply would have led to a long-run depression of housing prices in the transition area. However, given the presence of a pent-up demand for sound housing by blacks in the St. Louis area, the availability of such housing in the study area led to increased black demand in the transition areas. The sharp rise in transactions after 1964 is a manifestation of a shift in supply concurrent with increased demand. The trend of the price index in transition areas post-1964 indicates that even with rising supply, black demand increased sufficiently to produce an upward price trend in the more heavily integrating areas of the city. There is no unequivocal relationship between racial transition & the value of single fam residential property. 2 Tables, 1 Figure. M. Maxfield.

The U.S. federal civil service system, which focuses on using common human resource management procedures developed through a political process, is disappearing. Since the literature suggests that inclusion of institutional values is key to successful administrative systems such as human resource (HR) management, developers of alternative federal HR systems need to know what values are most important to American institutional stakeholders. This research addresses the question of most important values from the perspective of one key stakeholder—the president. Recognizing that the president as the institutional gatekeeper is the most sensitive articulator of American values, the author uses content analysis of presidential speeches to determine which values the president articulates most frequently. The research finds that presidents consistently use ethics language when speaking to the nation. Performance and support are also regular subjects, but their intensity varies over time. Although presidents showed little interest in leadership language during colonial times, as the nation has aged, leadership language has grown exponentially.

In dem Beitrag geht es um die Frage, ob die zu beobachteten Prozesse des Wertwandels eher mit der Sozialisationshypothese oder eher mit der Lebenszyklushypothese zu vereinbaren sind. Überprüft werden die Veränderungen von materialistischen (alte Politik) zu postmaterialistischen (neue Politik) Wertorientierungen im Sinne Ingleharts. Bei der Analyse wird auf eine repräsentative Panelbefragung (1976-1979) der 16- bis 34-jährigen Wohnbevölkerung der BRD zurückgegriffen. Mittels einer Faktorenanalyse wird ein Faktor isoliert, der alte und neue politische Werte in der Konzeptualisierung von Inglehart repräsentiert. Die Stabilität der Wertorientierung über die Zeit wird durch ein Verfahren gemessen, das den entsprechenden Stabilitätskoeffizienten um Meßfehler bereinigt. Es ergibt sich eine Schätzung, die für die Stabilität der Wertorientierungen spricht. Zugleich erfolgen Tests in Hinsicht auf etwaige Lebenszykluseffekte: Heirat - Änderung in Richtung auf die alte Politik; Schulabschluß - kein Anzeichen für eine Änderung; Einkommensveränderung - vor allem die Gruppe mit Einkommensverlusten wendet sich verstärkt postmaterialistischen Werten zu. Abschließend wird die relative Stärke des Einflusses von Sozialisations- und Lebenszykluseffekten durch ein multiples Indikatorenmodell getestet. Das Ergebnis unterstreicht insgesamt die höhere Gewichtigkeit der Sozialisationshypothese. (KW)