Urban Politics
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Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation
By Peter SaundersAlthough I have considered Marcuse, Habermas, Connolly and Lukes together, on the grounds that they all wish to retain an ultimate subjective referent for their conceptions of interests, there does appear to be one significant ...
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Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
By Bernard H. Ross, Myron A. LevineInterestingly, even leaders of Houston's African American community also attacked the Kingwood annexation, a move that added thousands of white voters to the city's voting rolls, diluting the power that black voters had gained in ...
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Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
By Bernard H. Ross, Myron A. LevineBrian 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 ...
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Urban Politics
By Harold Wolman, Michael GoldsmithUrban Politics
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Urban Politics: A Political Economy Approach
By William A. SchultzePolitical scientist Paul Peterson has used Tiebout's basic formulation in his City Limits.27 But Peterson broadens the concept beyond the singular concern for the economic character ...
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Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
By Myron LevineBrian P. Gill et al., Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time: Operations and Achievements in Edison Schools (Santa Monica, ... David N. Plank, and Gary Sykes, “Teachers Unions in Hard Times,” 204–206, both in Conflicting Mission?
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Urban Politics: Power in Metropolitan America
By Bernard H. Ross, Myron A. LevineThis text mixes the best classic theory and research on urban politics with the most recent developments in urban and metropolitan affairs. Six fundamental themes guide the book: the importance...
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Urban Politics: A Reader
By Stephen J. McGovernSteve 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.
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Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
By Bernard H. Ross, Myron A. LevineJames H. Svara, Official Leadership in the City: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation (New York: Oxford University Press ... of the Empowered Mayor: The 'Stronger Mayor' in Cincinnati, Ohio,” in The Facilitative Leader in City Hall, ed.
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Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
By Myron A. LevineThe 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 ...
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Urban Politics: The Political Culture of Gangs
By Rodrigo Garcia BernalUrban Politics: The Political Culture of Gangs is a juxtaposition of street gang organizations and government theory and organization. It is a civil philosophy reference book that examines street gang...
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Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
By Myron LevineIn Chicago, service contracting is not simply a means to improve service efficiency: the local Democratic organization also dispensed contracts to its friends as a form of patronage. (See Box 8.5, “Service Contracting: 'PinStripe ...
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Urban Politics: Critical Approaches
By Deborah Martin, Mark Davidson"This innovative volume offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world.
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Urban Politics: New York Style
By Dick Netzer, J. Bellush... 110 Livingston Street Revisited. New York: New York University Press, 1983, Chapter 1, for a review of some of these developments. 9. Allen H. Barton, et al., editors, Decentralizing City Government. Lexington, MA: Lexington, 1977. 10 ...
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Urban Politics: Critical Approaches
By Deborah Martin, Mark DavidsonWith case study material integrated throughout, and consideration given to the discussion of different urban politics from multiple theoretical perspectives, this is a completely up to date overview for students of urban geography, urban ...