The City in American Political Development (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dilworth, Richardson

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135853181
• Artikelnr.: 42983977

Autorenporträt

Richardson Dilworth is Associate Professor of Political Science at Drexel University, author of The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (2005) and editor of Social Capital in the City: Community and Civil Life in Philadelphia (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The City in American Political Development Richardson
Dilworth Part 1: American Exceptionalism and the City 1. The City and the
State in American Political Development: A Comparative Perspective on
Urbanization Robert Lieberman 2. Non-Durable Authority: Intercurrence and
Urban Power in Britain and the United States Jerome Hodos 3. Town and
Country in the Redefinition of State-Federal Power: Canada and the United
States, 1630-2005 Jason Kaufman Part 2: Urban Politics, HIstoricized and
Institutionalized 4. Challenging the Machine-Reform Dichotomy: Two Threats
to Urban Democracy Jessica Luce Trounstine 5. Power, Pluralism, and Urban
Political Development: Modernization Reconsidered Clarence Stone and Robert
Whelan Part 3: City, Space, and Nation 6. Spatial Institutionalism: The
Case of Cities in American Political Development Philip Ethington and David
Levitus 7. Urbanization and the Geographies of Statehood: Methodological
and Substantive Reflections on the US Case Neil Brenner Part 4: The
National Significance of Urban Ethnic and Racial Politics 8. Riots as
Critical Junctures in Urban Policy Michael Jones-Correa 9. Learning to
Lobby and Litigate: Baltimore's Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement
Matthew Crenson 10. Immigration and Institutional Change: The Urban Origins
of US Postal Savings Banks Alethia Jones 11. Conclusion Ira Katznelson