By John Lowenhardt
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The model which was used in describing educational reform has been 28 called the mobilization model of agenda building by Cobb, Ross & Ross. This model 'describes the process of agenda building in situations where political leaders initiate a policy, but require the support of . f or ~ts . 1 ementat~on. • 37 In t h e mo d e 1 , wh'~ch ~s . the mass p ubl ~c ~mp thought to be typical for directed societies, issues are placed on the formal agenda by decision makers and are soon expanded to the public agenda in order to generate the support of specific publics, necessary for their implementation.
Pusep. Rumiantsev probably represented a liberal policy group in the Secretariat; what he did was to place the issue on the formal agenda. Just before this Supreme Soviet meeting Pergament had used a conference on codification organized by her institute to promote the drafting of a new family law. Several legislative proposals were 49 designed, at juridical conferences, in professional journals and so on. By the end of 1961 a subcommission had completed a preliminary draft for Principles of legislation of the USSR and the union republics on marriage and the family, which was to overrule the 1944 Family Decree.
This system employs many thousands of censors throughout the country, who are guided by a thick volume listing, according to its title, 'information not to be published in the open press• 40 , in other words: information and issues not to reach the public agenda. As the title of this so-called Talmud indicates, there is in the Soviet Union a small closed press as well, functioning as the 'public' agenda for closed decision making. 41 The inside access model, as it has also been called, seems to be quite relevant for the study of Soviet decision making, which often proceeds behind closed doors.