Oliver P. Williams was Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is coeditor of Democracy in Urban America and Democracy in the Fifty States. He is coauthor of Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Charles R. Adrian was Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. He was the author of State and Local Governments: A Study in the Political Process, Governing Urban America, and Governing Our Fifty States and Their Communities.
PART I INTRODUCTION
I The Study Approach
II The Four Cities
PART II THE POLITICAL PROCESS
III Nonpartisanship: The Recruitment of Elective Officials
IV Nonpartisanship: Electoral Patterns
V Referendums
VI The Main Street Merchants
VII The Local Interests of Labor
VIII The Neighborhoods
PART III A TYPOLOGY OF CIVIC POLICIES
IX Type One: Promoting Economic Growth
X Type Two: Providing Life's Amenities
XI Type Three: Maintenance of Traditional Services
XII Type Four: Arbitration Among Conflicting Interests
PART IV CONCLUSIONS
XIII Community Differences and Policy Variations
XIV Political Institutions and the Structure of Politics
Appendixes
Index
