City and Regime in the American Republic

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University of Chicago Press, 15 авг. 1987 г. - Всего страниц: 220
Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities are, can, and should be. Rejecting the idea that two goals of city politics—equality and efficiency—are opposed to one another, Elkin argues that a commercial republic could achieve both. He then takes the unusual step of addressing how the political institutions of the city can help to form the kind of citizenry such a republic needs.

The present workings of American urban political institutions are, Elkin maintains, characterized by a close relationship between politicians and businessmen, a relationship that promotes neither political equality nor effective social problem-solving. Elkin pays particular attention to the issue of land-use in his analysis of these failures of popular control in traditional city politics. Urban political institutions, however, are not just instruments for the dispensing of valued outcomes or devices for social problem-solving—they help to form the citizenry. Our present institutions largely define citizens as interest group adversaries and do little to encourage them to focus on the commercial public interest of the city. Elkin concludes by proposing new institutional arrangements that would be better able to harness the self-interested behavior of individuals for the common good of a commercial republic.
 

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1 Introduction
1
2 City State and Market
18
3 Urban Political Economies
36
4 An Entrepreneurial Political Economy
61
5 Systematic Bias and Effective Problem Solving
83
6 City and Regime
102
7 A Commercial Republic?
124
8 The Commercial Public Interest and the Urban Citizenry
146
9 The Probable and the Desirable
170
10 Some Considerations on Political Judgment
189
Bibliography
201
Index
217
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Stephen L. Elkin is professor in the Department of Government at the University of Maryland and the editor of the Good Society, a journal of the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society. He is also the author of City and Regime in the American Republic, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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