American Urban Politics in a Global Age

Paul Kantor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Fordham University in New York City. His teaching and research interests include American and comparative politics, public policy, urban politics and economic development in the United States and Western Europe, and urban political economy. Dennis Judd is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a leading contributor to the literature on urban political economy, urban economic development, national urban policy, and urban revitalization.

Preface 
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: Governing the Metropolis in the Global Era 

PART ONE Globalization and the Economic Imperative

CHAPTER 1 Studying Urban Governance in a Global Age 
READING 1 The Interests of the Limited City, Paul E. Peterson
READING 2 Urban Regimes, Clarence N. Stone
READING 3  The Regime Moment, Dennis R. Judd and David Laslo

 

CHAPTER 2 The New Urban Economy and Local Politics
READING 4 Cities in the International Marketplace, H. V. Savitch and Paul Kantor
READING 5 Globalization and Leadership in American Cities, Royce Hanson, Harold Wolman, David Connolly, Katherine Pearson, Robert McManmon
READING 6 Rethinking the Politics of Downtown Development, Elizabeth Strom

 

CHAPTER 3 The Politics of Urban Development  
READING 7 Why Do Cities Decline?, Edward Glaeser 
READING 8 Culture, Art, and Downtown Development, Elizabeth Strom
READING 9 Can Politicians Bargain with Business?, Paul Kantor and H. V. Savitch
READING 10  "Re-stating" Theories of Urban Development, James M. Smith

 

PART TWO  Governing the Multiethnic Metropolis

CHAPTER 4 The Cities: Governing Factional Polities
READING 11 Minority Groups and Coalitional Politics, Reuel R. Rogers
READING 12 Black Incumbents and a Declining Racial Divide, Zoltan L. Hajnal
READING 13  The Paradoxes of Integration, J. Eric Oliver
READING 14  As Mayors Take Charge: School Politics in the City, Michael J. Kirst

 

CHAPTER 5 The Suburbs: Politics in a Changing Political Landscape 
READING 15  Immigration and the New Metropolitan Geography, Michael B. Katz, Mathew J. Creighton, Daniel Amsterdam, and Merlin             Chowkwanyun
READING 16  Right to the Suburb?, Genevieve Carpio, Clara Irazabal, and Laura Pulido 
READING 17 The Ethnic Diversity of Boomburgs, Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy
READING 18 Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles, Eric Avila

 

PART THREE  The Politics of Urban Resilience

CHAPTER 6  Fiscal Strain and Reform in a Federal System
READING 19  City Futures: Economic Crisis and the American Model of Urban Development, Paul Kantor
READING 20 “Fiscal Stress Faced by Local Governments”, Congressional Budget Office
READING 21 City Fiscal Conditions in 2011, Christopher W. Hoene and Michael A. Pagano

 

CHAPTER 7  Sprawl and Regional Solutions   
Reading 22 Building Consensus, Myron Orfield
Reading 23 Growth Management, David Rusk
Reading 24 Is Urban Sprawl a Problem?, Fred Siegel

 

CHAPTER 8 The Politics of Urban Resilience 
READING 25 Cities in a Time of Terror, H. V. Savitch
READING 26 The Political Economy of Disaster Assistance, Stephen D. Stehr
READING 27 Politics, Federalism and the Recovery Process in New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas