City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America / Edition 6

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Overview

Features:

  • The text's three-part approach provides important historical background from the nation's founding in 1789 through the Great Depression of the 1930s; an in-depth look at the crisis of the 20th century; and the effects of a globalized economy on the metropolis.
  • Strong and original thematic structure
  • Thorough blending of the vast secondary literature with primary sources, including new data and original author research
  • Boxed “Out Takes” appear in each chapter to highlight the major theme of the chapter and to make abstract concepts concrete.
  • Package Judd & Kantor's reader, American Urban Politics in a Global Age, 6/e with City Politics and receive a discount on the package price. The reader is the perfect complement for this main text, amplifying and going into greater depth on key concepts.

New to this Edition:

  • A comprehensive discussion throughout the text of the impact of the global economic recession of 2008/2009
  • Research that incorporates the urban policies of the Obama Administration
  • A thorough recasting of the chapter on the fiscal politics of cities to take into account the dramatic effects of the recession of 2008/2009 on city budgets and spending
  • A reorganization of chapters to make the linkage between central cities and suburbs more explicit
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780205522163
  • Publisher: Longman
  • Publication date: 7/16/2007
  • Series: MySearchLab Series 15% off Series
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 6
  • Pages: 432
  • Product dimensions: 6.32 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.85 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Ch. 1 The Politics of American Cities: An Introduction 1
Pt. I Contested Terrain: Political Conflict in the Cities 13
Ch. 2 The Private City and Local Democracy: The Political Legacy of the Nineteenth Century 15
Ch. 3 Party Machines and Political Entrepreneurs 53
Ch. 4 The Struggle for Political Control: The Reform Legacy 79
Ch. 5 The New Deal Coalition and the Cities 111
Pt. II The City in National Politics 133
Ch. 6 The Rise of the Divided Metropolis 135
Ch. 7 National Policy and the Divided Metropolis 176
Ch. 8 The Rise and Fall of National Urban Policy 213
Pt. III Urban Politics and the Fracturing of the American Political Community 259
Ch. 9 The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities 261
Ch. 10 The Politics of Secession: The Suburbs 291
Ch. 11 Fiscal Crisis and the Problems of Governance 324
Ch. 12 Revitalizing Cities: The Growth Imperative 355
Ch. 13 Keeping the Peace: The Challenge of Urban Governance 390
Ch. 14 The Urban Future: Secession or Community? 425
Index 435
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