TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oliver,J.Eric
TI  - Democracy in Suburbia
SN  - 9780691223360
AV  - JS391 
U1  - 320.8/5/0973 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Local government
KW  - United States
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Segregation
KW  - Social stratification
KW  - Suburban life
KW  - Suburbs
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Atlanta (Georgia)
KW  - Black Panthers
KW  - Bobo, Lawrence
KW  - Brehm, John
KW  - Camden (New Jersey)
KW  - Celebration (Florida)
KW  - Census of Governments (1987)
KW  - Cisneros, Henry
KW  - Danielson, Michael
KW  - Dixmoor (Illinois)
KW  - Downs, Anthony
KW  - Duany, Andres
KW  - Ehrenhalt, Alan
KW  - FIPS codes (Census Bureau)
KW  - Fair Housing Act (1968)
KW  - Frantz, Douglas
KW  - Garreau, Joel
KW  - Green Guerillas (NYC)
KW  - Guterbock, Thomas
KW  - Huckfeldt, Robert
KW  - Insight Meditation Society (Boston)
KW  - Jackson, Kenneth
KW  - Kerner Commission (1968)
KW  - Langdon, Philip
KW  - Levitt, Abraham
KW  - London, Bruce
KW  - Mansbridge, Jane
KW  - Mount Vernon (New York)
KW  - Organization Man (Whyte)
KW  - Pateman, Carole
KW  - Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth
KW  - Rusk, David
KW  - Russo, Anthony
KW  - Rybczynski, Witold
KW  - Stone, Clarence
KW  - Taylor, Marylee
KW  - Tufte, Edward
KW  - altruistic behavior
KW  - city manager government
KW  - civic capacity perspective
KW  - civic voluntarism model
KW  - classical liberal assessment
KW  - edge cities
KW  - ethnic identity
KW  - growth machine model
KW  - mayor-council governments
KW  - political party patronage
KW  - political struggle
KW  - public works
KW  - rational choice theory
KW  - urban political machines
KW  - voluntary organizations
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps and Figures --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER ONE The Rise of a Suburban Demos --; CHAPTER TWO All Cities Great and Small --; CHAPTER THREE Cities of Riches and Squalor --; CHAPTER FOUR The Civic Paradox of Racial Segregation --; CHAPTER FIVE A Bedroom Polis --; CHAPTER SIX Boomtowns and the Civic Costs of Air-Conditioning --; CHAPTER SEVEN Reform Governments and Their Aftermath --; CHAPTER EIGHT Remaking the Democratic Metropolis --; APPENDIX A The Citizen Participation / Census Dataset --; APPENDIX B Logistic and OLS Regression Equations for the Figures --; APPENDIX C Testing the Relationship between Civic Participation and “Self-Interest Rightly Understood” --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond popular stereotypes, Democracy in Suburbia answers these questions by examining how suburbs influence citizen participation in community and public affairs. Eric Oliver offers a rich, engaging account of what suburbia means for American democracy and, in doing so, speaks to the heart of widespread debate on the health of our civil society. Applying an innovative, unusually rigorous mode of statistical analysis to a wealth of unique survey and census data, Oliver argues that suburbs, by institutionalizing class and racial differences with municipal boundaries, transform social conflicts between citizens into ones between political institutions. In reducing the incentives for individual political participation, suburbanization has negated the benefits of ''small town'' government and deprived metropolitan areas of valuable civic capacity. This ultimately increases prospects of serious social conflict. Oliver concludes that we must reconfigure suburban governments to allow seemingly intractable issues of common metropolitan concern to surface in local politics rather than be ignored as cross-jurisdictional. And he believes this is possible without sacrifice of local government's advantages. Scholars and students of political science, sociology, and urban affairs will prize this book for its striking findings, its revealing scrutiny of the commonplace, and its insights into how the pursuit of the American dream may be imperiling American democracy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223360?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691223360
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691223360/original
ER  -