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Big City Politics in Transition

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Volume: 38
September 1991 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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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 the general quality of life. Analytic and comparative chapters extract patterns and variations which emerge from the city profiles. Each profile addresses common issues in socio-economic, coalitional, institutional, process, values and policy changes in the following American cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
John Clayton Thomas and H V Savitch
Introduction
Big City Politics, Then and Now

 
Philip L Clay
Boston
The Incomplete Transformation

 
Carolyn Teich Adams
Philadelphia
The Slide Toward Municipal Bankruptcy

 
Barbara Ferman
Chicago
Race and Reform

 
Wilbur Rich
Detroit
From Motor City to Service Hub

 
Andrew Glassberg
St. Louis
Racial Transition and Economic Development

 
Arnold Fleischmann
Atlanta
Urban Coalitions in a Suburban Sea

 
Ronald K Vogel and Genie N L Stowers
Miami
Minority Empowerment and Regime Change

 
Robert K Whelan and Alma H Young
New Orleans
The Ambivalent City

 
Carter Whitson and Dennis Judd
Denver
Boosterism versus Growth

 
Robert E Parker and Joe R Feagin
Houston
Administration by Economic Elites

 
Alan L Saltzstein and Raphael J Sonenshein
Los Angeles
Transformation of a Governing Coalition

 
Richard E DeLeon
San Fransisco
Post Materialist Populism in a Global City

 
Margaret Gordon et al
Seattle
Grassroots Politics Shaping the Environment

 
H V Savitch and John Clayton Thomas
Conclusion
End of the Millenium Big City

 

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