Brian P. Gill, P. Michael Timpane, Karen E. Ross, and Dominic J. Brewer, Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools (New York: RAND Education, 2001), reviews the effect of school ...
Luis Ricardo Fraga, “Domination Through Democratic Means: Nonpartisan Slating Groups in City Electoral Politics,” Urban Affairs Quarterly 23:4 (June 1988): 528–55. Boudreau et al., “Lost in Space?” Boudreau et al., “Lost in Space?
The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States will bring the CQ Press reference guide approach to topics in urban politics and policy in the United States.
The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States will bring the CQ Press reference guide approach to topics in urban politics and policy in the United States.
City Politics is a comprehensive text organized around the theme of political economy. Using a historical approach to reveal enduring patterns in urban politics, the text goes beyond an explanation...
This award-winning book “skillfully blends economic and political analysis” to assess the challenges of urban governments (Emmett H. Buell, Jr., American Political Science Review).
The book also develops important subthemes: the impact of globalization; the dominance of economic development over competing local policy concerns; the continuing importance of race in the urban arena; local government activism versus the ...
Steve McGovern’s Urban Politics: A Reader examines the changing structure of political power in cities through the lens of historical development, accompanied with brief explorations of pertinent public policy issues.
Through effective comparative analysis of key issues in urban studies--how city managers share power with mayors, how spending policies affect economic development, and how school politics impact education policy--students can clearly see ...
Tim O'Neil, “Blacks Want Half of City's Wards in Redistricting,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 8, 1991), p. 3A. Shaw v. Reno, 92357 (1993). In 1996 the Court rejected a somewhat redrawn 12th congressional district in North Carolina yet ...