List of plates, tables and figures xi Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1 PART 1 THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT OF URBAN POLITICS 5 Introduction 7 A Top 10 List of Things to Know About American Cities 9 Elvin K. Wyly, Norman J. Glickman, and Michael L. Lahr Poverty, Social Rights, and the Politics of Place In the United States 19 Margaret Weir Overview and Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization 28 Saskia Sassen Social Polarisation, Economic Restructuring and Welfare State Regimes 41 Chris R. Hamnett PART 2 THE ROOTS OF URBAN POLITICS 49 Introduction 51 Tammany Hall and the Democracy 53 Richard Croker The word Organizations ' 58 Milton Rakove Writing the Rules to Win the Game: The Middle-class Regimes of Municipal Reformers 67 Amy Bridges and Richard Kronick Why Political Machines Have not Withered away and Other Revisionist Thoughts 78 Raymond E. Wolfinger Resistance from Outside: Machine and the (Non) Incorporation of Immigrants ' 85 Michael Jones-Correa PART 3 UNDERSTANDING URBAN POWER 95 Introduction 97 How to Study Urban Political Power 99 John H. Mollenkopf Who Governs? 110 Robert A. Dahl The Interests of the Limited City 120 Paul E. Peterson Looking Back to Look Forward : Reflactions on Urban Regime Analysis 130 Clarence N. Stone In Search of the Growth Coalition: American Urban Theories and the Redevelopment of Berlin 141 Elizabeth Strom PART 4 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITIES AND COMMUNITIES 151 Introduction 153 The Posttwater Politics of Urban Development 155 John Mollenkopf Political Economy of Fiscal 168 Martin Shefter The Political Economy of Urban Regimes 175 H.V. Savitch, Paul Kantor, and Selena Vicari Congress Threatens To Leave D.C. Unless New Capital is Built 189 The Onion Community Empowerment Strategies; The Limits of Potential of Organizing in Low Income Neighborhoods 191 Peter Dreier Gender, Development and Urban Social Change : Women's Community Action in Global Cities 204 Amy Lind PART 5 THE POLITICS OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER 215 Introduction 217 Can People of color Achieve Eqality in City Government? The Setting and the Issues 219 Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb Demobilization in the New Black Political Regime : Idological Capitulation and Radical Failure in the Post-segregation Era 230 Adolph Reed Jr. Wanting In: Latin American Immigrant Women and the Turn to Electoral Politics 240 Michael Jones-Correa Black, White,and Blurred 249 Rob Gurwitt Ethnic Stability and Urban Reconstruction: Policy Dilemmas in Polarized Cities 254 Scott A. Bollens PART 6 CITIES, REGIONS, AND NATIONS 265 Introduction 267 Swimming Against the Tide: A of Brief History of Federal Policy in Poor Communities 269 Alice O'Connor The Urban Electorate In Presidential Election, 1920-1996 283 Richard Sauerzopf and Todd Swanstrom Urban Sacrifice 294 Buzz Bissinger Regionalisms Old and New- 303 Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom Are Europe's Cities Better ? 314 Pietro Nivola The American City in the Age of Terror: A Preliminary Assessment of the Effects of September 11 321 Peter Eisinger A Progressive Agenda for MetropolitanAmerica 330 Bruce Katz Copyright information 338 Index 341