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Just because Milwaukee isn't Manhattan, doesn't mean that those urban centers face completely unique challenges. Through effective comparative analysis of key issues in urban studies—how city managers share power with mayors, how spending policies affect economic development, and how school politics impact education policy—students can clearly see how scholars discern patterns and formulate conclusions to offer theoretical and practical insights from which all cities can benefit. Pelissero brings together an impressive team of contributors to explore variation among cities through case studies and cross-sectional analyses. Each author synthesizes the field's seminal literature while explaining how urban leaders and their constituents grapple with everything from city council politics to conflict and cooperation among minority groups. Authors identify both key trends and gaps in the scholarship, and help set the research agenda for the years to come. Lively case material will hook your students while the accessible presentation of empirical evidence make this reader the comprehensive and sophisticated text you demand.
Power and Governance in American Cities
Power and Governance in American Cities
Arecurring issue in urban political science concerns who has power or who governs. For years there has been debate about who is more important, corporate executives or popularly elected representatives. Though schools of thought differed about which is more important, money or votes, both sides assumed that some small body of people ran things.
In recent years, a different understanding has taken hold. In this alternative view, the important considerations are not about who governs but about how governance occurs. Accordingly, we need to know the extent to which various people and organizations work together and the terms on which they cooperate. Power lies not in the hands of some distinct group (who), but rather ...
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