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ABSTRACT:This paper describes and analyzes the nature of the New Orleans urban regime focusing on the first term of Sidney Barthelemy, the second black mayor of New Orleans (1986–1990). First, because the authors believe that regime theory needs to be more carefully theorized in relation to racial politics, they begin by discussing the changing relationship of blacks to the prevailing New Orleans regime. Second, in analyzing this racial politics, they focus on the relationship between the evolving structure of the electoral coalition, governing coalition development strategies, and the stability of the governing regime. They conclude that a caretaker regime is very difficult to maintain in a city with a recent majority black electorate. Such an electoral coalition has a tendency to support either a progressive or corporate regime. Finally, the authors pay particular attention to the development of the consensus‐seeking para‐apparatus, its relationship to racial politics, and its affect on development policy, governing coalition politics, and regime trans

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1994.tb00510.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

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ABSTRACT:This study examines the involvement of black ministers in urban regimes through a case study of Atlanta's Concerned Black Clergy organization. In the early years of black political leadership, the black clergy were promoters of racial solidarity, oftentimes against the interests of low income residents. With black political leadership secure, the clery emerged as frequent critics of development policies during Andrew Young's years as mayor. More recently, the Concerned Black Clergy have become active regime participants helping to influence policy decisions on behalf of the city's poorer citizens. Through their organizational efforts, the Concerned Black Clergy have become part of the process of regime change in the city.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1994.tb00511.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This study deals with the effects of an urban bureaucratic regime on urban development and neighborhood mobilization. It examines the sociospatial transformations in an Arab‐Jewish neighborhood in a major city in Israel. During the period of 1948–1990, the neighborhood experienced population turnover, planned deterioration and decline, and subsequent renewal and gentrification. The paper deals with the factors which shaped those policies and processes. the author argues that the political economy of Israel contributed to the emergence of a bureaucratic urban regime which effectively drove off all private entrepreneurial involvement in the area's development process. It is also shown that the inherent features of the bureaucratic regime facilitated community mobilization opposing development plans and made the governing agencies vulnerable to citizens' protests and court ruli

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1994.tb00512.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Local governments in many of the emerging democracies in Central and Eastern Europe are viewed as important components in the government process and as the building blocks for self‐government and democracy. During this institution‐building phase of democracy in Poland, the mayor plays a pivotal role in local government. This study examines the role of the mayor in Poland based on a survey of 289 mayors and many personal interviews. It specifically examines the degree of conflict and cooperation between the mayor and the city council, the bureaucracy, and the community. It is clear that Polish communities face enormous obstacles and that if local government is to succeed, it must meet massive challen

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1994.tb00513.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:While most academic inquiry has focused on the new national government in postsocialist Poland, much of the responsibility for establishing democratic institutions and practices and a market economy has been delegated by Parliament (Sejm) to the local level. This has placed extreme stress on the local government arrangement. This study does two things: It examines Sejm's 1990 local government system as implemented in the city of Block and reveals a fractionated structure devoid of important executive authority. It also demonstrates how, in pursuing the city council's growth mandate, the mayor landed a Western clothing manufacturing plant in Plock and, in so doing, established business community linkages which contain key elements of an emerging urban regime.

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1994.tb00514.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods: Progressive City Government in Chicago: 1983–1987, edited by Pierre Clavel and Wim Wiewel722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York, by Clifton HoodBeyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, by Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Rande

ISSN:0735-2166    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1994.tb00515.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY