Comparative civic culture : the role of local culture in urban policy-making /

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The quest for a theoretical framework for understanding urban policy-making has been a recurring focus of research into local governments. Civic culture is a means for understanding how municipal policy-makers weigh the interests of different groups, govern the local community, frame local goals, en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reese, Laura A. (Laura Ann), 1958-, Rosenfeld, Raymond A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
Temas:
Urban policy > United States > Case studies.
Urban policy > Canada > Case studies.
Political culture > United States > Case studies.
Political culture > Canada > Case studies.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Politique urbaine > Canada > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Political culture
Urban policy
Canada
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparative civic culture: theory and methods
  • Categorizing civic cultures: testing a typology of local civic culture
  • Inclusive/bureaucratic cities: Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Vancouver
  • Partnerships in Pittsburgh: civic cultures and organizational capacities
  • Civic culture in Ottawa: the endurance of local culture
  • Vancouver: the sustainable city
  • Market-active and passive cities: Charlotte, Calgary, Cleveland, Louisville
  • Civic culture and corporate regime in Louisville
  • A perpetual crisis: Cleveland's unfinished, changing, and incomplete civic agenda
  • Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture
  • Civic culture in Calgary: the oil and developers' land
  • Individualistic cities: Dallas and Miami
  • A tale of two cities: civic culture and public policy in Miami
  • The civic culture of Dallas, Texas
  • Conclusion: a theory of local civic culture.

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