By Marion Orr, Valerie C. Johnson
ISBN-10: 0700615733
ISBN-13: 9780700615735
A number one theorist in city politics, Clarence Stone redefined the sector along with his prize-winning ebook Regime Politics and is now said because the father of ''regime analysis.'' Over the process 4 a long time, he has tested political strength and management, race and politics, and the politics of social reform in city settings via writings that experience critiqued, debated, and recast huge questions about democracy and inequality.
This e-book collects ten vintage articles and essays via Stone to create a succinct reader in city politics. It encompasses theoretical paintings on city political strength; examinations of political management in group politics; issues of race, classification, and political strength in Atlanta; and writings at the politics of social reform and concrete regeneration. those items supply a version for integrating empiricism with conception, provide Stone's personal reflections on his concept, and exhibit the evolution of his thought.
The quantity additionally positive aspects 3 new items. The editors' advent presents an insightful overview of where of city politics in political technological know-how and an summary of Stone's contributions to the sphere. Stone himself presents a new essay that paints a imaginative and prescient for a brand new city time table, utilizing the regime notion as a base on which to construct for the longer term. And Jennifer Hochschild's concluding bankruptcy assesses Stone's paintings and lays out substitute views, finding his scholarship inside political technology and mentioning its many strengths in addition to a few of its omissions.
This assortment reminds these attracted to discourse approximately democracy, illustration, inequality, justice, and tool of the benefits that learning towns can carry to those vital matters. It additionally serves to redirect urbanists to special foundational elements of the city regime framework and should stand because the legacy of the main influential theorist in his field.
This publication is a part of the Studies in govt and Public Policy sequence.
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