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Online-Ressource (343 p)
ISBN:
9780691126036
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The City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation's second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley. How did Los Angeles, a diverse city with an image of unstructured politics and fragmented government, find a way to unify itself around a controversial set of reforms? Los Angeles government nearly collapsed in political bickering over charter reform, which generated the remarkable phenomenon of two competing charter reform commissions. Out of this nearly impossible tangle, refor
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface: Reform under the Gun; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: The Dynamics of Urban Reform; CHAPTER ONE: The Politics of Reform: The New Institutionalism Meets the New Diversity; CHAPTER TWO: Studying Los Angeles Politics; PART TWO: The Roots of Los Angeles Charter Reform; CHAPTER THREE: Reform, Los Angeles Style; CHAPTER FOUR: Richard Riordan and Conservative Reform; CHAPTER FIVE: Valley Secession and the Suburban Revolt; CHAPTER SIX: Charter Reform: The Cure for Secession?; PART THREE: The Battle over the Charter
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CHAPTER SEVEN: The 1997 Municipal Elections and the Politics of Charter ReformCHAPTER EIGHT: The Charter Reform Commissions; CHAPTER NINE: The Inside Game: Mayoral Authority; CHAPTER TEN: The Inside Game: Police Reform; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Outside Game: The Politics of Participation; PART FOUR: The Unified Charter; CHAPTER TWELVE: The Creation of the Unified Charter; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Fall and Rise of the Unified Charter; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Campaign for the Unified Charter; PART FIVE: The Battle over Secession; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Implementation
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The 2001 Municipal ElectionsCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Vote on Secession; PART SIX: The Future of Urban Reform; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Toward a Reform Regime: Governing Postsecession Los Angeles; CHAPTER NINETEEN: Conclusions and Implications: Reform, Twenty-First-Century Style; APPENDIX ONE: Summary of the Charter Proposal; APPENDIX TWO: Using Ecological Inference Model to Verify Results; Bibliography; Afterword: Reform, Diversity, and the 2005 Election of Antonio Villaraigosa; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400849642
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691126036
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The City at Stake : Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles
Language:
English
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