City Limits
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Book Overview
Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs. "City Limits radically reinterprets urban politics by deriving its dominant forces from the logic of the American federal structure. It is thereby able to explain some pervasive tendencies of urban political outcomes that are puzzling or scarcely noticed at all when cities are viewed as autonomous units, outside the federal framework. Professor Peterson's analysis is imaginativelyfor conceived and skillfully carried through. His beautifully finished volume will lastingly alter our understanding of urban affairs in America."-from the citation by the selection committee for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226662934
ISBN13:9780226662930
Release Date:July 1981
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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A must-read for the aspiring political scientist
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is an important book for people interested in urban studies to read. It has made some people angry (see Imbroscio, 2003 for more details), but it deserves to be read to get a grounding in Urban Political theory. It discusses why local politics are different. It explains the types of policies cities create (developmental, allocation, and redistributive). It discusses why cities do not generally get into the welfare policy business. Some believe that Peterson's "Unitary" interest of cities is incorrect in that politics do matter and that cities do not just have one interest of developmental politics. Nevertheless, Peterson's theory is tight, well-reasoned and more correct than it is incorrect.
Great Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
Exceptional analysis of city limits
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