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Neighborhood Defenders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Neighborhood Defenders

  • Categories: Law

Public participation in the housing permitting process empowers unrepresentative and privileged groups who participate in local politics to restrict the supply of housing.

Segregation by Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Segregation by Design

  • Categories: Law

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

Genomic Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Genomic Politics

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come. The emergence of genomic science in the last quarter century has revolutionized medicine, the justice system, and our very understanding of who we are. We use genomics to determine guilt and exonerate the convicted; devise new medicines; test embryos; and discover our ethnic and national roots. One might think that, given these advances, most would favor the availability of genomic tools. Yet as Jennifer Hochschild explains in More Science, Less Fear?, the uses of genomic sci...

When Cities Lobby
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

When Cities Lobby

In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, When Cities Lobby explores how local officials use lobbyists to compete for power in state politics. When Cities Lobby tells the story of what happens when city officials rely on professional lobbyists to represent their interests in state government. In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, the ability to lobby offers a powerful tool for city leaders seeking to amplify their voices in state politics. The cities that lobby at the highest rates include large urb...

Hometown Inequality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Hometown Inequality

Using big data, this book reveals stark racial and class inequalities in representation in local governments across the United States.

Resisting Redevelopment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

Resisting Redevelopment

In ten global cities, residents facing displacement from redevelopment and gentrification mobilized creatively to impact policies.

The New Immigration Federalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

The New Immigration Federalism

  • Categories: Law

This book offers an empirical analysis of recent pro- and anti-immigration lawmaking at state and local levels in the USA.

Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where most Americans live. Drawing on a wide variety of data sources and case studies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in America's municipalities. Arguing that current explanations of voting behavior are ill suited for most local contests, Eric Oliver puts forward...

Poor Representation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Poor Representation

The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.

Doc Holliday
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Doc Holliday

John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday’s early years, in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west. The influence of Holliday’s genteel upbringing never disappeared, but it was increasingly overshadowed by his emerging western personality. Holliday himself nurtured h...