Big city politics in transition /

This volume examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990. Each chapter traces demographic and economic changes over this vital, and at times turbulent, thirty year period explaining what those changes mean for politics, policies and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Savitch, H. V., Thomas, John Clayton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newbury Park, California : Sage Publications, [1991]
Colección:Urban affairs annual reviews ; v. 38.
Temas:
Municipal government > United States > Case studies.
Administration municipale > États-Unis > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Municipal government
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1
  • Introduction: Big City Politics, Then and Now; Chapter 2
  • Boston: The Incomplete Transformation; Chapter 3
  • Philadelphia: The Slide toward Municipal Bankruptcy; Chapter 4
  • Chicago: Power, Race, and Reform; Chapter 5
  • Detroit: From Motor City to Service Hub; Chapter 6
  • St. Louis: Racial Transition and Economic Development; Chapter 7
  • Atlanta: Urban Coalitions in a Suburban Sea; Chapter 8
  • Miami: Minority Empowerment and Regime Change; Chapter 9
  • New Orleans: The Ambivalent City; Chapter 10
  • Denver: Boosterism Versus Growth.
  • Chapter 11
  • Houston: Administration by Economic ElitesChapter 12
  • Los Angeles: Transformation of a Governing Coalition; Chapter 13
  • San Francisco: Postmaterialist Populism in a Global City; Chapter 14
  • Seattle: Grassroots Politics Shaping the Environment; Chapter 15
  • Conclusion: End of the Millennium Big City Politics; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Contributors.

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