Bridges / Fortner Urban Citizenship and American Democracy

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6102-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines city politics and policy, federalism, and democracy in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bridges, Amy

Fortner, Michael Javen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Introduction to Cities and Citizenship
Amy Bridges

1. Urban Autonomy and Effective Citizenship
Michael Javen Fortner

2. Putting the City Back into Citizenship: Civics Textbooks and Municipal Government in the Interwar American City
Tom Hulme

3. Latino Public School Engagement and Political Socialization
Marion Orr, Kenneth K. Wong, Emily M. Farris, and Domingo Morel

4. Farewell to the Urban Growth Machine: Community Development Regimes in Smaller, Distressed Cities
Richard A. Harris

5. Counting Bodies and Ballots: Prison Gerrymandering and the Paradox of Urban Political Representation
Khalilah L. Brown-Dean

6. Crime, Punishment, and Urban Governance in Contemporary American Politics
Lisa L. Miller

7. Two Cheers for American Cities: Commentary on Urban Citizenship and American Democracy
Jennifer L. Hochschild

8. American Cities and American Citizenship
Rogers M. Smith

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Bridges is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Democratic Beginnings: Founding the Western States; Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest; and A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics. Michael Javen Fortner is Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, Murphy Institute. He is the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment.