The urban politics reader
Part 1. The social and economic context of urban politics : A top 10 list of things to know about American cities / Elvin K. Wyly, Norman J. Glickman, and Michael L. LahrPoverty, social rights, and the politics of place in the United States / Margaret Weir -- Overview and economic restructuring as c...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Routledge
2007
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | The Routledge urban reader series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part 1. The social and economic context of urban politics : A top 10 list of things to know about American cities / Elvin K. Wyly, Norman J. Glickman, and Michael L. LahrPoverty, social rights, and the politics of place in the United States / Margaret Weir -- Overview and economic restructuring as class and spatial polarization / Saskia Sassen -- Social polarisation, economic restructuring and welfare state regimes / Chris R. Hamnett. -- Part 2. The roots of urban politics : Tammany Hall and the democracy / Richard Croker -- The ward organizations / Milton Rakove -- Writing the rules to win the game: the middle-class regimes of municipal reformers / Amy Bridges and Richard Kronick -- Why political machines have not withered away and other revisionist thoughts / Raymond E. Wolfinger -- Resistance from outside: machine politics and the (non) incorporation of immigrants / Michael Jones-Correa. -- Part 3. Understanding urban power : How to study urban political power / John H. Mollenkopf -- Who governs? / Robert A. Dahl -- The interests of the limited city / Paul E. Peterson -- Looking back to look forward: reflections on urban regime analysis / Clarence N. Stone -- In search of the growth coalition: American urban theories and the redevelopment of Berlin / Elizabeth Strom. -- Part 4. The political economy of cities and communities : The postwar politics of urban development / John Mollenkopf. -- The political economy of urban fiscal crises / Martin Shefter -- The political economy of urban regimes / H.V. Savitch, Paul Kantor, and Selena Vicari -- Congress threatens to leave D.C. unless new capitol is built / The Onion -- Community empowerment strategies: the limits and potential of organizing in low income neighborhoods / Peter Dreier -- Gender, development and urban social change: women's community action in global cities / Amy Lind. Part 5. The politics of race, ethnicity and gender : Can people of color achieve equality in city government? the setting and the issues / Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. TabbDemobilization in the new Black political regime: ideological capitulation and radical failure in the post-segregation era / Adolph Reed Jr. -- Wanting in: Latin American immigrant women and the turn to electoral politics / Michael Jones-Correa -- Black, white and blurred / Rob Gurwitt -- Ethnic stability and urban reconstruction: policy dilemmas in polarized cities / Scott A. Bollens. -- Part 6. Cities, regions and nations : Swimming against the tide: a brief history of federal policy in poor communities / Alice O'Connor -- The urban electorate in presidential elections / Richard Sauerkopf and Todd Swanstrom -- Urban sacrifice / Buzz Bissinger -- Regionalisms old and new / Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom -- Are Europe's cities better / Pietro Nivola -- The American city in the age of terror: a preliminary assessment of effects of September 11 / Peter Eisinger -- A progressive agenda for metropolitan America / Bruce Katz. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 354 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 041531996X 0-415-31996-X 0415319951 0-415-31995-1 9780415319966 978-0-415-31996-6 9780415319959 978-0-415-31995-9 |