ISBN:
9780415417730
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (387 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Urban Politics : A Sociological Interpretation
DDC:
306.2/0941
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this book, the author provides a critical examination and evaluation of a number of the central political questions currently being posed in urban studies.The book is divided into two interrelated sections. Part One critically discussed the theoretical problems raised by recent work in Britain, Europe and the United States and covers such issues as 'non-decision making' and the mobilisation of bias in political systems, the significance of owner-occupation as a basis for political action, the potential importance of 'urban social movements', and the nature of the relationship between urban
Description / Table of Contents:
URBAN POLITICS A Sociological Interpretation; Copyright; URBAN POLITICS A Sociological Interpretation; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part 1 Theoretical perspectives; Introduction; 1 Power, interests and causality; Two models of political inactivity; The problem of relativism; Causality and constraint; Competent rule use and the generation of bias; 2 Housing, class interests and political action; The neo-Weberian approach and the concept of housing classes; Marxist approaches: owner-occupation as ideology; The economic significance of house ownership
Description / Table of Contents:
Some possible implications for Weberian and Marxist approaches3 The new urban politics; Collective consumption, contradictions and the rise of urban social movements; A critical evaluation of the Castells thesis; New politics, old dilemmas; 4 The question of the local state; State policies: functions and causes; Theoretical perspectives on the state; The local state and the problem of autonomy; Part 2 Empirical applications; Introduction; 5 The local authority; Social composition; The local council: internal relations; The local council: external relations; 6 The deep south
Description / Table of Contents:
The suburban middle class and the political eliteA green and pleasant land; The middle class up against it?; 7 Participation and protest; The participatory response: competing agreement; The protest response: non-competing contradiction; 8 Business interests and local policy; The town centre redevelopment; A community of interest and sentiment; Policy-making and corporate representation; 9 The sociology of urban politics research; The problem of identification; Theory and methodology; The political context; List of references; Index of subjects; Index of names;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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