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Author : Dennis R. Judd
Release : 1988
Genre : Cities and towns
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Book Synopsis The Politics of American Cities by : Dennis R. Judd
Download or read book The Politics of American Cities written by Dennis R. Judd. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rufus P. Browning
Release : 2003
Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis Racial Politics in American Cities by : Rufus P. Browning
Download or read book Racial Politics in American Cities written by Rufus P. Browning. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging, up-to-date collection of original essays focuses on the continuing struggle for minorities to gain political power in American cities. The essays included in this book were written specifically for this text by top urban scholars who have done extensive analysis of the development of urban policy in response to minority concerns. Each selection addresses a particular city's racially based electoral coalitions and leadership, as well as examining recent political changes, their impact, and future implications. Each essay also features the editors' successful "Political Incorporation Model" which provides a framework melding research on ethnic coalition with mobilization strategies and allows students to effectively compare one U.S. city to another.
Author : Eduardo Moncada
Release : 2016-01-06
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 904/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America by : Eduardo Moncada
Download or read book Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America written by Eduardo Moncada. This book was released on 2016-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. The study shows how the political projects that cities launch to confront urban violence are shaped by the interaction between urban political economies and patterns of armed territorial control. It introduces business as a pivotal actor in the politics of urban violence, and argues that how business is organized within cities and its linkages to local governments impacts whether or not business supports or subverts state efforts to stem and prevent urban violence. A focus on city mayors finds that the degree to which politicians rely upon clientelism to secure and maintain power influences whether they favor responses to violence that perpetuate or weaken local political exclusion. The book builds a new typology of patterns of armed territorial control within cities, and shows that each poses unique challenges and opportunities for confronting urban violence. The study develops sub-national comparative analyses of puzzling variation in the institutional outcomes of the politics of urban violence across Colombia's three principal cities—Medellin, Cali, and Bogota—and over time within each. The book's main findings contribute to research on violence, crime, citizen security, urban development, and comparative political economy. The analysis demonstrates that the politics of urban violence is a powerful new lens on the broader question of who governs in major developing world cities.
Author : Thomas K. Ogorzalek
Release : 2018
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Cities on the Hill by : Thomas K. Ogorzalek
Download or read book The Cities on the Hill written by Thomas K. Ogorzalek. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and South, but in the differences between how cities and rural areas govern themselves and pursue their interests on the national stage. Using a wide range of evidence from Congress and an original dataset measuring the urbanicity of districts over time, he shows how the trajectory of partisan politics in America today was set in the very beginning of the New Deal. Both rural and urban America were riven with local racial conflict, but beginning in the 1930s, city leaders became increasingly unified in national politics and supportive of civil rights, changes that sowed the seeds of modern liberalism. As Ogorzalek powerfully demonstrates, the red and blue shades of contemporary political geography derive more from rural and urban perspectives than clean state or regional lines-but local institutions can help bridges the divides that keep Americans apart.
Author : Jessica Trounstine
Release : 2009-05-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Political Monopolies in American Cities by : Jessica Trounstine
Download or read book Political Monopolies in American Cities written by Jessica Trounstine. This book was released on 2009-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the same time that Richard J. Daley governed Chicago, greasing the wheels of his notorious political machine during a tenure that lasted from 1955 to his death in 1976, Anthony “Dutch” Hamann’s “reform” government centralized authority to similar effect in San Jose. In light of their equally exclusive governing arrangements—a similarity that seems to defy their reputations—Jessica Trounstine asks whether so-called bosses and reformers are more alike than we might have realized. Situating her in-depth studies of Chicago and San Jose in the broad context of data drawn from more than 240 cities over the course of a century, she finds that the answer—a resounding yes—illuminates the nature of political power. Both political machines and reform governments, she reveals, bias the system in favor of incumbents, effectively establishing monopolies that free governing coalitions from dependence on the support of their broader communities. Ironically, Trounstine goes on to show, the resulting loss of democratic responsiveness eventually mobilizes residents to vote monopolistic regimes out of office. Envisioning an alternative future for American cities, Trounstine concludes by suggesting solutions designed to free urban politics from this damaging cycle.
