Title: Power Plays
First published: November 1996
Description: Power Plays provides a conflict model of organizational behavior based on a historical reanalysis of the creation and early development of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from its origins as a World War I munitions plant to its consolidation as the largest electric utility in the United States. It also examines Philip Selznick's classic work, TVA and the Grass Roots.

The book shows how the interactions among the Depression, New Deal politics, the promise of electricity, and diverse ideologies with the strategic and tactical maneuvers of a policy network explain the institutionalization of the TVA.
Subjects: Corporations, Government, Electric utilities, Government Corporations, History, Tennessee Valley Authority, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Affairs & Administration
Places: Tennessee River Valley, United States
LC classification: HD9685.U7 T333 1997