Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> American Government - Local

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery and assess how successfully officials at the local, state, and federal levels transformed the Big Easy in the wake of disaster. Focusing on reforms in four key sectors of urban governance--economic development, education, housing, and law enforcement--both before and after Katrina, they find lessons for cities hit by sudden shocks,...

The condition of his section of town, North Omaha, where almost all of the fifty thousand African-Americans live in Omaha was shocking, and became the #1 priority for Love, Jr.. "Economic Cataracts" brings together a collection of position papers and initiatives by the...

Law enforcement administration, local government managers, community leaders, elected officials, and criminal justice students alike will benefit from "Strategy."

Dr. Maulin Chris Herring, a former police chief and national consultant who now teaches criminal justice, explains how communities can develop a long-term strategic plan to reduce crime, increase the quality of life, and improve relationships by collaborating with the African American community.

Rather than providing a "quick fix" to issues decades in the making, Dr. Herring outlines necessary law enforcement agency...

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of governance do they choose in the face of persistent problems?

The Risk of Regional Governance offers a new perspective on these questions. Drawing on theory from sociology and anthropology, it argues that many of the most important cooperative decisions local officials make--those about...