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Struggle for Power and Influence in Cities and States, The
This dynamic new text examines state and local government through the prism of the struggle for power within institutions. The authors — both scholars and elected officials — give stude...
Political Change in the Metropolis
This popular text has been thoroughly updated and revised to sharpen the focus on its “bias and change” theme, include the latest data/studies informing the field, and cover important new topics...
American Urban Politics in a Global Age
Bringing together a selection of readings that represent some of the most important trends and topics in urban scholarship today, American Urban Politics provides historical context and contemporar...
Urban America

Urban America

Processes and Problems

John Levy

Paperback, Oct 2000
ISBN13: 9780132871112
ISBN10: 0132871114
For introductory courses in Urban Politics in Departments of Political Science, Urban Studies, Sociology, Geography, Urbanization, Urban Affairs, and Urban Problems.Balanced and non-j...
Cities and Privatization

Cities and Privatization

Prospects for the New Century

Jeffrey Greene

Paperback, Jul 2003
ISBN13: 9780130294425
ISBN10: 013029442X
For undergraduate/graduate level courses in Bureaucracy, Public Policy, Public Administration, Urban Studies, State and Local Government, and American Government.This concise, readabl...
Racial Politics in American Cities
This engaging, up-to-date collection of original essays focuses on the continuing struggle for minorities to gain political power in American cities. The essays included in this book...
Metropolitan Chase, The

Metropolitan Chase, The

Politics and Policies in Urban America

E. Jones

Paperback, Dec 2002
ISBN13: 9780130166418
ISBN10: 0130166413
For introductory and advanced courses in Urban Politics, Metropolitan Politics, Urban Planning, Urban Affairs, and Local Government.Unlike other texts, which merely acknowledge (but n...
Inside Urban Politics

Inside Urban Politics

Voices from America's Cities and Suburbs

Dick Simpson

Paperback, Apr 2004
ISBN13: 9780321095671
ISBN10: 0321095677
Sure to grab student interest and engage them in course material, this unique new urban politics reader is a collection of primary and secondary sources designed to give students a first-hand, “...