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The corporation and the local community repre sent sometimes conflicting ends for members of the corporate hierarchy. There is a citizenship of the corporation and a citizenship of the local territorial community that may and do conflict. The corporation offices constitute many of the top status positions in the local community; the behavior of cor porate managers influences that of many others. Where cor porate managers are more loyal to the corporation than to the local community, the natives, the local citizens, are as likely to resent this as exploitation as are the people of a banana re public to resent the alien rule of the fruit company. Yet cor porate managers are supposed to be primarily businessmen run ning a business on a competitive basis. If they forget this and run a welfare organization, the business and the economy suffer. The conflict between immobile territorial loyalities and the need for the mobile recombination of the factors of produc tion is built into the situation. Corporate managers cannot escape involvement in local politics, for they have power. They must, in a sense, be alien if they are true to the interests of the corporation and, indeed, to the larger economy. But, if they are visibly alien as irresponsible holders of power over local lives, they must be hateful to the natives. The dilemma is real, and no public-relations wand will wave it away.

The corporation & the local community represent sometimes conflicting ends for members of the corporate hierarchy. There is a citizenship of the corporation & a citizenship of the local territorial community that may & do conflict. The corporation offices constitute many of the top status positions in the local community; the behavior of corporate managers influences that of many others. Where corporate managers are more loyal to the corporation than to the local community, the natives, the local citizens, are as likely to resent this as exploitation as are the people of a banana republic to resent the alien rule of the fruit company. Yet corporate managers are supposed to be primarily businessmen running a business on a competitive basis. If they forget this & run a welfare org, the business & the economy suffer. The conflict between immobile territorial loyalties & the need for the mobile recombination of the factors of production is built into the situation. Corporate managers cannot excape involvement in local pol, for they have power. They must, in a sense, be alien if they are true to the interests of the corporation &I indeed, to the larger economy. But, if they are visibly alien as irresponsible holders of power over local lives, they must be hateful to the natives. The dilemma is real, & no public-relations wand will wave it away. AA.

There is an old aphorism that fire is a good servant but a bad master. Something like this aphorism is frequently applied to the appropriate role of the bureaucracy in government. Because bureaucracy is often viewed as tainted with an ineradicable lust for power, it is alleged that, like fire, it needs constant control to prevent its erupting from beneficient servitude into dangerous and tyrannical mastery.The folklore of constitutional theory relegates the bureaucracy to somewhat the same low but necessary estate as Plato does the appetitive element of the soul. In the conventional dichotomy between policy and administration, administration is the Aristotelian slave, properly an instrument of action for the will of another, capable of receiving the commands of reason but incapable of reasoning. The amoral concept of administrative neutrality is the natural complement of the concept of bureaucracy as instrument; for according to this view the seat of reason and conscience resides in the legislature, whatever grudging concession may be made to the claims of the political executive, and a major, if not the major, task of constitutionalism is the maintenance of the supremacy of the legislature over the bureaucracy. The latter's sole constitutional role is one of neutral docility to the wishes of the day's legislative majority.

AbstractAn analysis of various methods of substate regional organization, the federal impetus for their creation, their shortcomings and potentials.