University of Michigan. Institute of Public Policy Studies

Formerly called Institute of Public Administration.

From the description of Institute of Public Policy Studies (University of Michigan) records, 1917 and 1934-1967. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422284

Immediately after the 1967 Detroit riots, professors Joel Aberbach and Jack L. Walker conceived of a study to examine the attitudes of individuals throughout metropolitan Detroit. Financed by federal funds channeled through the Institute for Public Policy Studies, they established a team of interviewers who began to talk to a carefully selected sample population in September 1967. Follow up studies were conducted in 1968 and 1971. In addition to the sample population, interviews were conducted with a number of civic leaders in 1968. The findings of these surveys have been published in summary form, as well as in Aberbach's and Walker's jointly authored, Race in the City: political trust and public policy in the new urban system (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973).

From the guide to the Aberbach-Walker Detroit Riot Studies records, 1967-1971, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)