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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; The Changing Focus of Local Political Studies; The Resurvey; Amplification of Earlier Findings; Expanding the Scope of the Study; Acknowledgments; Part 1. Overview; 1. The Civil Community in the Federal System; Outside Influences on the Civil Community; The Civil Community's Response; The Quality of Life in the Cities of the Prairie; 2. Closing the Metropolitan Frontier; Government and the Course of the Metropolitan Frontier |
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The Latter Days of the Metropolitan FrontierShifts in Geohistorical Location; Toward a Fourth Frontier?; 3. Political Culture and the Geology of Local Politics; Approaches to the Study of Political Culture; The Cities and American Political Subcultures; Excluded Streams, Civil Rights, and Political Culture; The Political Cultural Patterns Maintained; 4. Continuing the Generational Rhythm; Changes in Constitutional Design; Constitutional Design, the Party System, and Democracy; Issues and Controversies; 5. Federalism versus Managerialism in the Civi lCommunity |
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The Rise and Decline of Local ManagerialismThe 1970s: Between Frontiers; Part 2. Case Studies; 6. From Industrial City to Metropolitan Civil Community: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Pueblo; The Culmination of Puehloys Urban-Industrial Order, iĝi-ôo; Wartime Boom and Postwar Expansion; Charter Reform; Local Patterns of Political Change; Locational Constraints and the Opening Gambit; The Politics of Accommodation; The Emergence of a Metropolitan-Technological Order, ig6i-j6; Pueblo's Break with the Past; Political Change in Contemporary Pueblo |
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7. Changing Expectations of Local Government in Light of the 1960s: The Cases of Champaign and UrbanaChampaign and Urbana: Contrasts and Similarities; Urbana and Federal Aid; Racial Integration in Urbana; Champaign Responds to External Pressures; The Case of Public Housing; Integration in Public Employment; Integrating the Public Schools; Conclusion; 8. The Agricommercial Tradition on the Metropolitan Frontier: Decatur; Frontier Stages of the Agricommercial Tradition; Decatur in the Federal System; Decatur as a Reluctant Polity; Conflict among the Cornfields; Conclusion |
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9. The Effect of External Factors on the Medium-Sized Civi lCommunity: The Case of JolietFactors in the Urban System Environment Affecting Joliet since ig6o; Observations and Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Cities and towns -- Middle West
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Cities and towns
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Middle West
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rothman, Rozann
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Schecter, Stephen L
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Stein, Maura Allan
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Elazar, Daniel J
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| ISBN |
9781351484909 |
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1351484907 |
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