The City in American Political Development

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ISBN: 9780203881101 | 0203881109
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Copyright: 3/5/2009

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The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building.

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Introduction: The City in American Political Development
American Exceptionalism and the City
The City and the State in American Political Development: A Comparative Perspective on Urbanization
Non-Durable Authority: Intercurrence and Urban Power in Britain and the United States
Town and Country in the Redefinition of State-Federal Power: Canada and the United States, 1630-2005
Urban Politics, HIstoricized and Institutionalized
Challenging the Machine-Reform Dichotomy: Two Threats to Urban Democracy
Power, Pluralism, and Urban Political Development: Modernization Reconsidered
City, Space, and Nation
Spatial Institutionalism: The Case of Cities in American Political Development
Urbanization and the Geographies of Statehood: Methodological and Substantive Reflections on the US Case
The National Significance of Urban Ethnic and Racial Politics
Riots as Critical Junctures in Urban Policy
Learning to Lobby and Litigate: Baltimore's Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement
Immigration and Institutional Change: The Urban Origins of US Postal Savings Banks
Conclusion
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