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Neighborhood Organization And Interest Group Processes
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Author : David J. O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-08
Neighborhood Organization And Interest Group Processes written by David J. O'Brien and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-08 with Social Science categories.
Since the end of the civil rights era in the sixties it has become increasingly clear that social and political conflicts cannot be resolved entirely at the national level. Struggles between residents of poor neighborhoods and local interest groups or public authorities present some of our most explosive domestic political problems today. This study seeks insight into these problems through an analysis of efforts during the sixties to organize the poor to pursue their interests in local decision-making processes. David J. O'Brien holds that both organizers and scholarly observers of the grass-roots movement have failed to understand properly the process by which interest groups are formed. Arguing that the demise of neighborhood organization cannot be attributed to supposedly unique social, psychological, or cultural characteristics of the poor, he develops an analytical framework that emphasizes the strategic role of incentives and organizational resource problems. This framework helps explain not only the failure of organizers in the sixties to grasp the problems of interest group formation, but also the assumptions that prevented them from identifying the source of their frustration. The author assesses the different approaches that have been taken to neighborhood organization, and outlines a model for future efforts. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Organizing For Power And Empowerment
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Author : Jacqueline B. Mondros
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1994
Organizing For Power And Empowerment written by Jacqueline B. Mondros and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Community organization categories.
Designed to help build powerful community organizations, empower ordinary citizens to become leaders, and bring about major social and economic change, this book offers a coherent practice-based framework for understanding social action, with power and empowerment at the center of analysis. Topics include recruiting members, consensus building, leadership, publicity, and fundraising.
Handbook Of Organization Management
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Author : W. B. Eddy
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1983-08-25
Handbook Of Organization Management written by W. B. Eddy and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-08-25 with Political Science categories.
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Interest Group Society
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Author : Jeffrey M Berry
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-14
The Interest Group Society written by Jeffrey M Berry and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with Political Science categories.
This book describes a great change in the interest groups in American politics and includes analysis of the legal limits of non-profit politics. It examines the effects of the new Democratic majorities on partisan lobbying, political action committee spending.
Neighborhood Conservation And Property Rehabilitation
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Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Neighborhood Conservation And Property Rehabilitation written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with City planning categories.
Neighborhoods And Urban Development
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Author : Anthony Downs
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Neighborhoods And Urban Development written by Anthony Downs and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Business & Economics categories.
American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year within and among neighborhoods; their flows across a city can radically and quickly alter the character of its neighborhoods. What is behind all this ferment—the decline of one area, the revitalization of another? Can the process be made more rational? Can city neighborhoods be stabilized--and older cities thus preserved? This book argues that such flows of residents are not random. Rather, they are closely linked to overall migration into or out of each metropolitan area and to the way U.S. cities develop. Downs contends that both urban development and the social problems it spawns are built upon social arrangements designed to benefit the middle-class majority. Racial segregation divides housing in each metropolitan area into two or more markets. Socioeconomic segregation subdivides neighborhoods within each market into a class hierarchy. The poor live mainly in the oldest neighborhoods, close to the urban center. The affluent live in the newest neighborhoods, mostly at the urban periphery. This separation stems not from pure market forces but from exclusionary laws that make the construction of low-cost housing illegal in most neighborhoods. The resulting pattern determines where housing is built and what housing is left to decay. Downs uses data from U.S. cities to illustrate neighborhood change and to reach conclusions about ways to cope with it. he explores the causes and nature of racial segregation and integration, and he evaluates neighborhood revitalization programs, which in reviving part of a city often displace many poor residents. He presents a timely analysis of the effect of higher energy costs upon urban sprawl, argues the wisdom of reviving older cities rather than helping their residents move elsewhere, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of public and private policies at the federal, state, metropolitan-area,
American Neighborhoods And Residential Differentiation
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Author : Michael J. White
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 1988-07-14
American Neighborhoods And Residential Differentiation written by Michael J. White and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07-14 with Social Science categories.
Residential patterns are reflections of social structure; to ask, "who lives in which neighborhoods," is to explore a sorting-out process that is based largely on socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and life cycle characteristics. This benchmark volume uses census data, with its uniquely detailed information on small geographic areas, to bring into focus the familiar yet often vague concept of neighborhood. Michael White examines nearly 6,000 census tracts (approximating neighborhoods) in twenty-one representative metropolitan areas, from Atlanta to Salt Lake City, Newark to San Diego. The availability of statistics spanning several decades and covering a wide range of demographic characteristics (including age, race, occupation, income, and housing quality) makes possible a rich analysis of the evolution and implications of differences among neighborhoods. In this complex mosaic, White finds patterns and traces them over time—showing, for example, how racial segregation has declined modestly while socioeconomic segregation remains constant, and how population diffusion gradually affects neighborhood composition. His assessment of our urban settlement system also illuminates the social forces that shape contemporary city life and the troubling policy issues that plague it. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
Private Groups And Public Life
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Author : Jan W. van Deth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-12-16
Private Groups And Public Life written by Jan W. van Deth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Political Science categories.
Empirical case studies examine how new social movements interact with conventional political structures as individuals and groups experiment with new forms of political expression. The results indicate a changing democratic structure.
Social Change And Politics
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Author : Morris Janowitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Social Change And Politics written by Morris Janowitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
This classic study deals with social control in advanced industrial society, especially the United States, and particularly the half-century after World War I. The United States is representative of Western advanced industrial nations that have been faced with marked strain in their political institutions. These nation-states have been experiencing a decline in popular confidence and distrust of the political process, an absence of decisive legislative majorities, and an increased inability to govern effectively, that is, to balance and to contain competing interest group demands and resolve political conflicts.Janowitz uses the sociological idea of social control to explore the sources of these political dilemmas. Social control does not imply coercion or the repression of the individual by societal institutions. Social control is, rather, the face of coercive control. It refers to the capacity of a social group, including a whole society, to regulate itself. Self-regulation implies a set of higher moral principles beyond those of self-interest.Since the end of World War II, the expanded scope of empirical research has profoundly transformed the sociological discipline. The repeated efforts to achieve a theoretical reformulation have left a positive residue, but there have been no new conceptual breakthroughs that are compelling. This book is a concerted and detailed effort organize and to make sense out of the vastly increased body of empirical research.
The Last Half Century
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Author : Morris Janowitz
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1978
The Last Half Century written by Morris Janowitz and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Janowitz examines the societal changes that have weakened the electoral system and contributed to the further decline of social control, and encourages the development of new forms of citizen participation.