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Neighborhood Politics
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Author : Matthew A. Crenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Neighborhood Politics written by Matthew A. Crenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Political Science categories.
The setting for the author's book is Baltimore. In this surprising, powerful work, he finds that such neighborhood action does not arise from a strong sense of neighborliness or community feeling. Instead, it is precisely when neighbors dislike one another that some features of informal self-organization emerge.
The Future Of Us All
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Author : Roger Sanjek
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2000-02
The Future Of Us All written by Roger Sanjek and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02 with Political Science categories.
Before the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area's two-decade experience of multiracial diversity offers us an early look at the future of urban America. The result of more than a dozen years' work, this remarkable book immerses us in Elmhurst-Corona's social and political life from the 1960s through the 1990s. First settled in 1652, Elmhurst-Corona by 1960 housed a mix of Germans, Irish, Italians, and other "white ethnics." In 1990 this population made up less than a fifth of its residents; Latin American and Asian immigrants and African Americans comprised the majority. The Future of Us All focuses on the combined impact of racial change, immigrant settlement, governmental decentralization, and assaults on local quality of life which stemmed from the city's 1975 fiscal crisis and the policies of its last three mayors. The book examines the ways in which residents--in everyday interactions, block and tenant associations, houses of worship, small business coalitions, civic rituals, incidents of ethnic and racial hostility, and political struggles against overdevelopment, for more schools, and for youth programs--have forged and tested alliances across lines of race, ethnicity, and language. From the telling local details of daily life to the larger economic and regional frameworks, this account of a neighborhood's transformation illuminates the issues that American communities will be grappling with in the coming decades.
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Author : Larry Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Neighborhood Politics written by Larry Bennett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Political Science categories.
First Published in 1997. This book is the outcome of a small project that grew and grew. In the fall of 1990 the Chicago-based Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) commissioned the author to do a study of the Uptown area, to which he had moved in 1988.lMeanwhile, in conjunction with his university's Foreign Study Program, he spent the fall of 1991 in Sheffield, England.
Neighborhood Politics
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Author : Robert Dilger
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1992-09
Neighborhood Politics written by Robert Dilger and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09 with Political Science categories.
This book examines the role of residential community associations in the American intergovernmental system of governance. Residential community associations (RCAs) have experienced phenomenal growth in recent years, yet their significance and impact remains largely unexamined Robert Jay Dilger here identifies the extent and nature of the services and operations provided by RCAs, documents their development as a housing and land use planning innovation, and analyzes their role in acting, in many ways, as a substitute for local governments. Dilger illustrates the many ways in which RCAs are influential actors in the American political and intergovernmental process. Examining this impact of RCAs on local politics, he also extrapolates to determine the implications of their proliferation for American governance and democratic values. Economic conditions and consumer preferences suggest, he argues, that RCAs will continue to play an vital role in American governance well into the 21st century. Essential reading for anyone interested in public policy, local politics and government, this book is the definitive account of these increasingly powerful organizations.
The Government Next Door
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Author : Luigi Tomba
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-21
The Government Next Door written by Luigi Tomba and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-21 with Political Science categories.
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens’ everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba’s vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place. Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.
Neighborhood Government
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Author : Milton Kotler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Neighborhood Government written by Milton Kotler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Political Science categories.
Originally published in 1969 by Bobbs Merrill, this volume provides an excellent overview for students. Contents: Introduction: The Neighborhood Movement; 1. The Historical Basis of the Neighborhood; 2. The Imperial City; 3. Theories of Neighborhood Organization; 4. The Neighborhood Corporation; 5. The Political Issues of Neighborhood Corporation; 6. Local Territory and Political Environment; 7. The Transfer of Authority; 8. The Organization of Neighborhood Politics; 9. Localism, Not Separatism; 10. The Radical Politics of Local Control; Epilogue: A New Constitution.
Neighborhood Democracy
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Author : Douglas Yates
language : en
Publisher: Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : D.C. Heath
Release Date : 1973
Neighborhood Democracy written by Douglas Yates and has been published by Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : D.C. Heath this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Political Science categories.
A Neighborhood Politics Of Last Resort
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Author : Stephen Danley
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-12-05
A Neighborhood Politics Of Last Resort written by Stephen Danley and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-05 with Social Science categories.
The steep rise in neighborhood associations in post-Katrina New Orleans is commonly presented in starkly positive or negative terms – either romanticized narratives of community influence or dismissals of false consciousness and powerlessness to elite interests. In A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort Stephen Danley offers a messier and ultimately more complete picture of these groups as simultaneously crucial but tenuous social actors. Through a comparative case study based on extensive fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans, Danley follows activists in their efforts to rebuild their communities, while also examining the dark underbelly of NIMBYism ("not in my backyard"), characterized by racism and classism. He elucidates how neighborhood activists were tremendously inspired in their defense of their communities, at times outwitting developers or other perceived threats to neighborhood life, but they could be equally creative in discriminating against potential neighbors and fighting to keep others out of their communities. Considering the plight of grassroots activism in the context of national and global urban challenges, A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort immerses the reader in the daily minutiae of post-Katrina life to reveal how multiple groups responded to the same crisis with inconsistent and often ad-hoc approaches, visions, and results.
Challenging The Growth Machine
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Author : Barbara Ferman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Challenging The Growth Machine written by Barbara Ferman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Economic development and urban growth are the contested grounds of urban politics. Business elites and politicians tend to forge "pro-growth" coalitions centered around downtown development while progressive and neighborhood activists counter with a more balanced approach that features a strong neighborhood component. Urban politics is often shaped by this conflict, which has intellectual as well as practical dimensions. In some cities, neighborhood interests have triumphed; in others, the pro-growth agenda has prevailed. In this illuminating comparative study, Barbara Ferman demonstrates why neighborhood challenges to pro-growth politics were much more successful in Pittsburgh than they were in Chicago. Operating largely in the civic arena, Pittsburgh's neighborhood groups encountered a political culture and institutional structure conducive to empowering neighborhood progressivism in housing and economic development policymaking. In contrast, the pro-growth agenda in Chicago was challenged in the electoral arena, which was dominated by machine, ward-based politicians who regarded any independent neighborhood organizing as a threat. Consequently, neighborhood demands for policymaking input were usually thwarted. Besides revealing why the development policies of two important American cities diverged, Ferman's unique comparative approach to this issue significantly expands the scope of urban analysis. Among other things, it provides the first serious study to incorporate the civic sector-neighborhood politics-as an important component of urban regimes. Ferman also emphasizes institutional and cultural factors-often ignored or relegated to residual roles in other studies-and expounds on their influence in shaping local politics and policy. To add an analytical and normative dimension to urban analysis, she focuses on the "non-elite" actors, not just the economic and political elites who compose governing coalitions. Ultimately, Ferman takes a more holistic and balanced view of large cities than is typical for urban studies as she argues that neighborhoods are an important, integral part of what cities are and can be. For that reason especially, her work will have a profound impact upon our understanding of urban politics.
Neighborhood Politics
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Author : Robert Jay Dilger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Neighborhood Politics written by Robert Jay Dilger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Electronic books categories.