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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharp, Elaine B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban policy.
Political planning.
Political participation > U.S. states.
Municipal government.
Local government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > State & Provincial.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Local.
Participation politique > États-Unis > États.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis.
Politique publique > États-Unis.
Administration municipale > États-Unis.
Administration locale > États-Unis.
Political participation > United States > States.
Urban policy > United States.
Political planning > United States.
Municipal government > United States.
Local government > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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