Title:

Todd R. La Porte papers, approximately 1960-2014

Todd R. Laporte papers

Creator/Contributor:

La Porte, Todd R., 1931-, creator, creator.

Includes correspondence, research notes and writings, course materials, reports and reprints from Professor La Porte's teaching, research, and consulting work. Six cartons and one box contain student papers from his undergraduate Administrative Behavior class on the organizational units in the University of California, Berkeley and are restricted.

Date:

1960 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Technology -- Public opinion

Nuclear power plants

Organizational effectiveness

Reliability (Engineering)

Air traffic control

Radioactive waste disposal

La Porte, Todd R -- 1931- -- Archives

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via a Special Collections Request link.

Cartons 34-39 and box 1: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

Gift of Todd LaPorte 2023.

Todd R. La Porte is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and publishes in the areas of organization theory, technology, and politics, and on the organizational and decisionmaking dynamics of large, complex, technologically intensive organizations. He is best known for his work in High Reliability Organization Studies, which reseach the organizational aspects of hazardous, safety critical systems such as nuclear power, air traffic control, and nuclear aircraft carriers. He was a member of numerous scholarly organizations and was particularly active in the National Academy of Science, serving on the Board on Radioactive Waste Management, and panels on the Committee on Human Factors, and the Transportation Research Board, and the Committees on Long Term Institutional Management of DOE Legacy Waste Sites: Phase Two, and Principles and Operational Strategies for Staged Repository Systems. At the University of California, Berkeley he taught courses on Public Administration and Organization; Administrative Behavior, Technology, Organization, and Politics.

Todd R. La Porte papers, BANC MSS 2023/233, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English.

Type:

Faculty papers.

print

49 (39 1

English

Origin:

California

UNPROCESSED. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via a Special Collections Request link.

Cartons 34-39 and box 1: RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.