Book Reviews : Metropolitan Los Angeles—A Study in Integration XVI: The Metropolis: Is Integration Possible? By EDWIN A. COTTRELL AND HELEN L. JONES. (Los Angeles: The Haynes Foundation. 1955. Pp. ix, 116. Cloth, $2.50; paper, $2.00.)

• Author: Charles R. Adrian
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295600900155
• Date: 01 March 1956
• Published date: 01 March 1956
• Subject Matter: Articles

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or

post-appointment

screening.

A

related

criticism

concerns

definitions.

While

the

differentiation

between

terms

such

as

&dquo;loyalty

risk&dquo;

and

&dquo;se.

curity

risk&dquo;

is

now

understood

by

political

scientists,

such

terms

as

&dquo;factors

going

to

suitability&dquo;

may

not

be.

Some

terms

are

used

several

times

before

definition

or

clarification

emerges.

Personnel

security

regulations

are

still

a

timely

matter.

Only

recently

the

Court

of

Appeals

in

San

Francisco

declared

the

Coast

Guard

regu-

lations

in

security

in

the

shipping

industry

to

be

unconstitutional.

There

can

be

no

doubt

that

the

questions

raised

by

Miss

Weinstein’s

study

are

important

and

perhaps

vital

in

a

free

society.

Portland

State

College.

BROCK

DIXON.

Metropolitan

Los

Angeles—A

Study

in

Integration

XVI:

The

Metropolis:

Is

Integration

Possible?

By

EDWIN

A.

COTTRELL

AND

HELEN

L.

JONES.

(Los

Angeles:

The

Haynes

Foundation.

1955.

Pp.

ix,

116.

Cloth,

$2.50;

paper,

$2.00.)

This

is

the

sixteenth

and

last

volume

in

a

comprehensive.

study

of

the

structure

and

functions

of

governmental

units

in

the

Los

Angeles

metro-

politan

area.

Although

the

late

Edwin

A.

Cottrell

is

by

courtesy

listed

as

the

senior

author,

the

book

is,

in

fact,

almost

entirely

the

work

of

Miss

Jones.

Unlike

earlier

volumes

in

the

study,

which

are

content

with

des-

cription,

this

one

attempts

to

answer

an

imposing

question:

&dquo;Is

Integration

Possible?&dquo;

The

author

has

done

a

painstaking

job

of

setting

out

the

myriad

of

formal

and

informal

co-operative

arrangements

to

be

found

in

the

inter-

governmental

relations

of

the

area.

Details

are

also

given

concerning

the

trend

toward

the

transfer

of

functions

to

the

county.

Any

instructor

in

municipal

government

courses

will

find

a

wealth

of

examples

for

classroom

use

illustrating

the

problems

to

be

found

in

a

metropolitan

area

and

the

unsystematic

efforts

being

made

to

solve

them.

One

chapter

is

devoted

to

an

extensive

statement

of

partial

integrations

that

have

taken

place.

There

are

numerous

suggestions

for

possible

fur,

ther

consolidations

of

functions

within

this

piecemeal

approach.

The

last

chapter

outlines

recommendations

leading

to

two

possible

solutions

to

metropolitan

area

government:

use

of

the

county

as

a

supergovernment,

and

use

of

a

single

multipurpose

special

district.

In

connection

with

the

latter,

considerable

space

is

devoted

to

blueprint,

in

the

style

of

Robert

Owen,

of

an

idealized

model.

The

proposed

solutions

are

based

on

the

a

priori

assumptions

of

the

efficiency

and

economy

reform

movement.

These

assumptions

are

accepted

without

any

questioning

of

their

empirical

validity.

There

is,

furthermore,