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Does Local Government Matter? : How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement /

Employing policy feedback theory to a series of local government programs, Elaine B. Sharp shows that these programs do have consequences with respect to citizens' political participation. With this clear-eyed analysis, Sharp finds that local governments' social program activities actually...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sharp, Elaine B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Government programs matter: political learning, policy feedbacks, and the policy-centered approach
  • The participatory impacts of county governments' means-tested and universal social programs
  • City government and neighborhoods: intentional empowerment and reactionary mobilization
  • Community policing: a reform policy for police responsiveness
  • City government, economic development incentives, and business influence
  • The impact of development incentive policy reform: a case study
  • Policy-centered theory and urban programs: community effects in a global context.