The Government Next Door
Title | The Government Next Door PDF eBook |
Author | Luigi Tomba |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2014-08-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0801455197 |
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens’ everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba’s vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place. Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.
Neighborhood Government
Title | Neighborhood Government PDF eBook |
Author | Milton Kotler |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780739109915 |
At a time of intense urban civil unrest in the United States, this classic text by Milton Kotler was the first to forcefully demonstrate how governance on the neighborhood level could allow Americans to regain liberty and the right to govern their own lives. Kotler's original project showed how towns--once independent but then later annexed by adjacent cities--became exploited by centralized downtown power. As relevant today as it was when originally published in 1969, Neighborhood Government continues to speak to American cities whose faces have been radically changed by immigration, urban sprawl, and communities fractured by pervasive economic and racial inequality. With a new critical foreword by Terry L. Cooper that places the text within contemporary debates and a new foreword and afterword from the author, Neighborhood Government continues to be a vital work for anyone interested in the economic, social, and political health of American cities and the continuing struggle to increase community investment and control.
Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government
Title | Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Henry Nelson |
Publisher | The Urban Insitute |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780877667513 |
From 1980 to 2000, half the new housing in the United States was built in a development project governed by a neighborhood association. More than 50 million Americans now live in these associations. In Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government, Robert Nelson reviews the history of neighborhood associations, explains their recent explosive growth, and speculates on their future role in American society. Unlike many previous studies, Nelson takes on the whole a positive view. Neighborhood associations are providing the neighborhood environment controls desired by the residents, high quality common services, and a stronger sense of neighborhood community. Identifying significant operating problems, Nelson proposes new options for improving the future governance of neighborhood associations.
Neighborhood Oriented Programs of the Federal Government
Title | Neighborhood Oriented Programs of the Federal Government PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Ecomomic assistance, Domestic |
ISBN |
Neighborhood Government
Title | Neighborhood Government PDF eBook |
Author | Howard W. Hallman |
Publisher | SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1974-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
The Politics of Local Government
Title | The Politics of Local Government PDF eBook |
Author | Barry E. Truchil |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2017-12-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1498520456 |
Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation of budgets, regulation, and control of development (including conversion of open space to housing and business buildings), as well as the initiation of progressive changes such as the use of green energy and control of corruption. Given the limited available research in this area, this book fills a void for scholars in the field, undergraduate and graduate students as well as those interested in the politics of local government.
Neighborhood Defenders
Title | Neighborhood Defenders PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Levine Einstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019-12-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108477275 |
Public participation in the housing permitting process empowers unrepresentative and privileged groups who participate in local politics to restrict the supply of housing.