Book Reviews : Political Influence. By EDWARD C. BANFIELD. (New York: The Free Press of Glen coe, 1961. Pp. viii, 354. $6.00.)
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296401700114 |
| Date | 01 March 1964 |
| Author | Earl C. Segrest |
| Published date | 01 March 1964 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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BOOK
REVIEWS
The
Secretariat
of
the
United
Nations.
United
Nations
Study
No.
11.
By
SIDNEY
D.
BAILEY.
(New
York:
Carnegie
Endowment
for
International
Peace,
1962.
Pp.
113.
$3.50.)
The
book
under
review,
the
second
of
Sidney
Bailey’s
studies
on
a
principal
organ
of
the
United
Nations
to
be
published
in
the
Carnegie
Endowment’s
United
Nations
series
(Bailey’s
earlier
study
of
1960
had
as
its
topic
the
General
Assembly)
deals
with
the
Secretariat
in
the
days
of
Secretary-General
Dag
Hammarskjold
and
Acting
Secretary-General
U
Thant.
In
scope
this
study
does
not
compare
with
the
comprehensive
study
by
Stephen
M.
Schwebel
on
the
ofhce
of
the
Secretary-General
and
the
exercise
of
its
powers
by
Trygve
Lie,
which
appeared
in
1952
under
the
title,
The
Secretary-General
of
the
United
Nations.
Despite
the
promise
of
a
wider
range
held
out
to
the
reader
in
the
introductory
chapter,
Bailey
actually
discusses
but
two
major
aspects
of
the
Secretariat.
These
are:
(1)
the
problems
connected
with
establishing
an
international
civil
service
pos-
sessing
international
loyalty
and
recruited
on
the
grounds
of
competence
and
effi-
ciency,
yet
with
due
regard
to
as
wide
a
geographical
basis
as
possible;
and
(2)
the
evolution
of
the
office
of
the
Secretary-General.
Bailey
holds
that
national
loyalty
and
loyalty
to
the
United
Nations
do
not
exclude
each
other,
but
that
in
order
to
establish
a
secretarial
staff
loyal
to
the
UN
the
number
of
the
non-career
employees
of
the
organization
must
never
exceed
a
certain
set
percentage.
As
to
the
evolution
of
the
office
of
the
Secretary-General,
Bailey
rightly
points
out
&dquo;two
parallel
and
related
trends.&dquo;
The
policy-making
organs
(the
General
Assembly
and
the
Councils)
have
increasingly
entrusted
to
the
Secretary-General
&dquo;broad
diplomatic
and
operational
functions,&dquo;
functions
on
which
the
members
of
these
political
organs
could
themselves
at
times
not
agree;
and
the
Secretary-General
has
been
&dquo;using
all
the
resources
of
his
office
in
the
exer-
cise
of
independent
initiatives
designed
to
further
the
purposes
and
principles
of
the
Charter.&dquo;
GEORGE
V.
WOLFE
The
College
of
Idaho
Political
Influence.
By
EDWARD
C.
BANFIELD.
(New
York:
The
Free
Press
of
Glen-
coe, 1961.
Pp. viii, 354.
$6.00.)
Professor
Banfield
has
made
an
intensive
case
study
of
political
influence
and
how
it
operates
in
six
areas
of
civic
controversy
in
Chicago.
He
has
been
remarkably
successful
in
achieving
his
stated
purposes:
(1)
to
describe
and
analyze
an
urban
political
system
in
one
of
its
aspects;
and
(2)
to
contribute
to
the
theoretical
under-
standing
of
political
influence
in
general.
The
case
studies
unfold
almost
like
dramas,
with
innumerable
characters
in
the
casts;
with
the
action,
interaction,
and
reaction
outlined
in
terms
of
influence;
and
with
asides
by
the
narrator
to
clarify
or
elucidate
some
underlying
factors
not
clearly
discernable
from
the
action.
In
his
theoretical
evaluation
of
the
data,
Banfield
has
formulated
some
valuable
concepts
with
respect
to
political
influence
and
how
it
operates,
and
he
has
come
to
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