Comparative Civic Culture : The Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making.
Title:
Comparative Civic Culture : The Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making.
Author:
Reese, Laura A.
ISBN:
9781409436553
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (434 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributor Biographies -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1 -- 1 Comparative Civic Culture: Theory and Methods -- 2 Categorizing Civic Cultures: Testing a Typology of Local Civic Culture -- PART 2 -- 3 Inclusive/Bureaucratic Cities: Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Vancouver -- 4 Partnerships in Pittsburgh: Civic Cultures and Organizational Capacities -- 5 Civic Culture in Ottawa: The Endurance of Local Culture -- 6 Vancouver: The Sustainable City -- PART 3 -- 7 Market-Active and Passive Cities: Charlotte, Calgary, Cleveland, Louisville -- 8 Civic Culture and Corporate Regime in Louisville -- 9 A Perpetual Crisis: Cleveland's Unfinished, Changing, and Incomplete Civic Agenda -- 10 Civic Culture as a Policy Premise: Appraising Charlotte's Civic Culture -- 11 Civic Culture in Calgary: The Oil and Developers' Land -- PART 4 -- 12 Individualistic Cities: Dallas and Miami -- 13 A Tale of Two Cities: Civic Culture and Public Policy in Miami -- 14 The Civic Culture of Dallas, Texas -- 15 Conclusion: A Theory of Local Civic Culture -- Index.
Abstract:
The quest for a theoretical framework for understanding urban policy-making has been a recurring focus of research into local governments. Civic culture is a means for understanding how municipal policy-makers weigh the interests of different groups, govern the local community, frame local goals, engage in decision-making, and ultimately select and implement public policies. While it seems that culture 'matters' in local policy making, how to measure culture in a valid and replicable fashion presents a significant challenge which the authors address in this book. They present their findings of a large multi-city research project to explore the nature of civic culture in cities in the US and Canada. The focus of their analysis is on three overarching 'systems' of community power system, the community value system, and the community decision-making system. The authors address a number of questions around the nature of civic culture and the relationships between the three systemic elements of civic culture, to refine and apply a more sophisticated theory of urban policy-making.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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