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Overview"Civic Culture and Urban Change analyzes Dallas government's adaptation to shifts in the city's demography and economic structure that occurred after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The book examines civic culture as a product of a governing regime and studies the constraints civic culture has placed on the city's capacity to adapt to changes in its population, economy, and distribution of political power. Royce Hanson traces the impact of civic culture in Dallas on the city's handling of major crises in education, policing, and management of urban development over the past forty years and shows the reciprocal effect of responses to crises on the development of civic capital. Hanson relates the city's civic culture to its economic history and political institutions by following the progression of Dallas governance from business oligarchy to regency of professional managers and federal judges. He studies the city's responses to school desegregation, police-minority conflicts, and other issues to illuminate the role civic and organizational cultures play in shaping political tactics and policy. Hanson builds a profile of political life in Dallas that highlights the city's low voter turnouts, sparse civic and political networks, and relative lack of multiracial institutions and mechanisms. Civic Culture and Urban Change summarizes the """"solution sets"""" Dallas employs in dealing with major issues and discusses the implications of those findings for the future of effective democracy in Dallas and other large cities." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Royce HansonPublisher: Wayne State University Press Imprint: Wayne State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.909kg ISBN: 9780814330807ISBN 10: 0814330800 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 30 April 2003 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsThis is an impressing essay. The author lends credibility, substance, and life to abstract academic commonplaces like 'regime' and 'civic culture.' Close to the evidence, swift with insight, and graceful in its prose... The Dallas story is an instructive one, and Royce Hanson tells it with insight, grace, and a keen eye for the telling detail. As a city with a dynamic and globally engaged economy, Dallas nevertheless struggles with burgeoning problems. As Hanson shows, the city is less in control of its own destiny than ever before. Hanson lays bare the inherent weaknesses of an anti-politics tradition and the inadequacies of government by managers. For anyone interested in urban political economy, this book is a must-read. This is an impressing essay. The author lends credibility, substance, and life to abstract academic commonplaces like 'regime' and 'civic culture.' Close to the evidence, swift with insight, and graceful in its prose... Author InformationRoyce Hanson is Professor of Practice in Policy Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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