Urban Politics : A Sociological Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9780415417730 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 386 str.

Peter Saunders

Opis

Provides an examination of a number of the political questions posed in urban studies. Divided into two interrelated sections, this book discusses the theoretical problems raised by work in Britain, Europe and the US and covers such issues as 'non-decision making' and the mobilisation of bias in political systems.

Spis treści

Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives

Introduction

1. Power, interests and causality

2. Housing, class interests and political action

3. The new urban politics

4. The question of the local state

Part 2: Empirical Applications

5. The local authority

6. The deep south

7. Participation and protest

8. Business interests and local policy

9. The sociology of urban politics research