Daniel Elazar

The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier

Cities of the Prairie Revisited

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Produktbeschreibung

The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781138534766
• ISBN-10: 1138534765
• Artikelnr.: 49208452

Autorenporträt

Daniel Elazar

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: Overview
1: The Civil Community in the Federal System
2: Closing the Metropolitan Frontier
3: Political Culture and the Geology of Local Politics
4: Continuing the Generational Rhythm
5: Federalism versus Managerialism in the Civil Community
2: Case Studies
6: From Industrial City to Metropolitan Civil Community: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Pueblo
7: Changing Expectations of Local Government in Light of the 1960s: The Cases of Champaign and Urbana
8: The Agricommercial Tradition on the Metropolitan Frontier: Decatur
9: The Effect of External Factors on the Medium-Sized Civil Community: The Case of Joliet