This course will examine urban governance in the context of both electoral and issue-oriented politics. It will focus on such topics as the relationship of municipal governments to the state and federal governments; the relationship between government and business; the relationship between the city and its suburbs; and ethnic, professional, and bureaucratic politics.

Judd and Swanstrom's City Politics describes the general context in which urban politics developed and now operates. Robert Dahl's study of New Haven in Who Governs? presents a basis for the discussion of pluralist theory as it relates to urban and national politics. Edward Banfield's The Unheavenly City Revisited offers a "conservative" view of city life. And Fred & Harry Siegel's Annual Editions: Urban Society contains a number of recent magazine and journal articles on urban society.

In addition to the required books, each student will be expected to do a term paper on the economic development plans of a municipality within Connecticut, especially as it affects small business.  As an alternative to this assignment, a few students--with the prior permission of the instructor--will be allowed to do more theoretical term papers using some of the books appearing on the attached Book List as a starting point. The papers--whether based on a town's economic development plans or on a choice of books--will be presented as typewritten reports ten pages in length. Some students may also be asked to make an oral presentation based on the work they will be doing for their term paper.

Along with the term paper and possible class oral presentation, students' performances in the course will be judged on the basis of two examinations and on class participation which includes making chapter reports. It is expected that students will keep up with the required reading, whether or not a specific reading assignment is announced in class. Should class participation become particularly lax, unannounced quizzes may be given.

Dr. Triebwasser's office is located in Room 010 in the basement of DiLoreto Hall. His office hours are from 12:30 to 2:00 and from 4:00 to 5:00 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays; and by appointment. If you cannot meet with Dr. Triebwasser during his scheduled office hours, do not hesitate to make an appointment with him. His phone number is 832-2970, and his e-mail  address is triebwasser@ccsu.edu.  

Dahl, Robert. Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in An American City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Banfield, Edward C. The Unheavenly City Revisited.  Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1990.

Siegel, Fred and Harry Siegel. Editors. Annual Editions: Urban Society. Twelfth  Edition. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005.

Ackermann, Barbara.  "You the Mayor?"  The Education of a City Politician.  Auburn House, 1989.

Ahearn, J.F. Police in Trouble. 1972.

Alinsky, Saul D. Reveille For Radicals. New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1969.

Altshuler, Alan. Community Control. New York: Pegasus, 1970.

Arian, Asher; Goldberg, Arthur S.; Mollenkopf, John H.; and Rogowsky, Edward T. Changing New York City Politics. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Inc., 1990.

Aron, J.B. The Quest for Regional Cooperation: A Study of the New York Metropolitan Regional Council. 1969.

Aronson, J. Richard, Schwartz Eli, and Arnold, David S. Management Policies in Local Government Finance. 4th edition. International City: County Management Association, 1996.

Bachrach, Peter, and Baratz, Morton S. Power and Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Banfield, Edward C., and Wilson, James Q. City Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.

Barth, Timothy J. Who Benfits From State and Local Economic Development Policies? Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1991.

Biles, Roger.  Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago.  Northern Illinois University Press, 1996.

Bish, R.L. The Public Economy of Metropolitan Areas. 1971.

Bissinger, Buzz.  A Prayer for the City.  Random House, 1997.

Boyarsky, B., and Boyarsky, N. Backroom Politics: How Your Local Politicians Work, Why Your Government Doesn't and What You Can Do About It. 1974.

Briand, Michael.  Practiced Politics: Five Principles for a Community That Works.  University of Illinois Press, 1999

Browning, Rufus P.; Marshall, Dale Rogers; and Tabb, David H. Racial Politics in American Cities. New York: Longman, 1990.

Byran, Frank M.  Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works.  Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Cahn, Edgar S., and Passett, Barry A. Citizen Participation Effecting Community Change. New York: Praeger, 1971.

Callow, Alexander B., Jr. The Tweed Ring. New York: Oxford University Press, Galaxy Books, 1969.

Campbell, A.K. and Sacks, S. Metropolitan America: Fiscal Patterns and Governmental Systems. 1967.

Caplovitz, David. The Poor Pay More. New York: Free Press, 1967.

Caraley, Demetrios. City Governments and Urban Problems. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice -Hall, Inc., 1977.

Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto. New York: Harper and Row, Torchbooks, 1967.

Clark, Terry N. and Ferguson, Lorna C.  City Money: Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment.  Columbia University Press, 1983.

Clay, Grady. How To Read the American City: Close-Up. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973.

Connery, Robert H., and Leach, Richard H. The Federal Government and Metropolitan Areas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.

Cornwell, Elmer E., Jr. Bosses, Machines and Ethnic Groups. The Annals, Vol. 353, May 1964.

Costikyan, Edward N. Behind Closed Doors. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Harvest Books, 1966.

Cox, Kevin R.  Editor.  Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local.  New York: The Guilford Press, 1997.

Danielson, Michael N. Federal-Metropolitan Politics and the Commuter Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.

Dionne, E.J. Jr. Editor. Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America.  Brookings Institution, 1998.

Downs, A. Urban Problems and Prospects. 1970.

Dreier, Peter; Mollenkopf, John and Swanstrom, Todd.  Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century.  University Press of Kansas, 2001.

Dresang, Dennis and Gosling, James.  Politics and Policy in American States and Communities.  Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 1998.

Dye, Thomas D.  Politics in State and Communities. Tenth Edition.. Prentice Hall, 2000.

Ehrenhalt, Alan.  The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s.  Basic Books, 1995.

Ellis, W. W. White Ethnics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization. 1969.

Fantini, M. And Gittell, M. Decentralization: Achieving Reform. 1973.

Fincher, Ruth and Jacobs, Jane M.  Editors.  Cities of Difference.  New York: The Guilford Press, 1998.

Finn, Chester E.; Manno, Bruno V. and Vanourek, Gregg.  Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education.  Princeton University Press, 2000.

Fisher, G.W. Taxes and Politics: A Study of Illinois Public Finance. 1969.

Fisher, Ronald C.  Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations.  Kluwer, 1997.

Foster, Kathryn A.  The Political Economy of Special-Purpose Government. Georgetown University Press, 1997.

Freedman, L. Public Housing: The Politics of Poverty. 1969.

Frieden, Bernard J. And Sagalyn, Lynne B. Downtown, Inc., How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991.

Gans, Herbert J. The Levittowners. 1967.

_______. The Urban Villagers. New York: Free Press, 1962.

Gardiner, J.A. The Politics of Corruption: Organized Crime in an American City. 1970.

Garreau, Joel.  Edge City: Life on the New Frontier.  Doubleday, 1991.

Gelfand, M.David.  Editor.  State and Local Taxation and Finance in a Nutshell. Second Edition. West, 2000.

Gilbert, Charles E. Governing the Suburbs. Indiana University Press. 1967.

Gladwin, Thomas. Poverty U.S.A. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

Glazer, N., and Moynihan, D.P. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City. 1963.

Godwin, R Kenneth and Kemerer, Frank.  School Choice and Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity.  University of Texas Press, 2002.           

Goldfield, David R. And Brownell, Blaine A. Urban America: A History. Princeton, New Jersey: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.

Goldsmith, Stephen.  The Twenty-First Century: Resurrecting Urban America.  University Press of America, 1999.

Gordon, David M. Problems in Political Economy: An Urban Prospective. Second Edition. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1977.

Gosnell, Harold P. Machine Politics: Chicago Style. Second Edition. University of Chicago Press/ PhoenixBooks, 1968.

Gottmann, Jean. Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1961.

Greer, Ann L. The Mayor's Mandate: Municipal Statecraft and Political Trust. Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1974.

Greer, Scott. Urban Renewal and American Cities. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.

Greorgakas, Dan, and Surkin, Marvin. Detroit: I do Mind Dying. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975.

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Baltimore: Penquin Books, 1964.

Harris, Jonathan.  A Civil Action.  Vintage, 1996
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Hawley, Willis D., and Wirt, Frederick M. The Search for Community Power. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968.

Herson, Lawrence J.R. and Bolland, John M. The Urban Web: Politics, Policy , and Theory. Second Edition. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, Inc., 1998.

Horwitt, Sanford D. Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Hunter, David R. The Slums. New York: Free Press, 1968.

Hunter, Floyd. Community Power Structure. Chapel Hill, N.C.: North Carolina University Press, 1953.

Hutcheson, John D., Jr., and Frank X. Steggert. Organized Citizen Participation in Urban Areas. Atlanta, GA: Emory University Center for Research in Social Change, 1970.

Harris, Jonathan.  A Civil Action.  Vintage, 1996

Johnson, Valerie C.  Black Power in the Suburbs.  State University of New York Press, 2002.

Johnson, William C. The Politics of Urban Planning. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

Judd, Dennis, and Kantor, Paul. Enduring Tensions in Urban Politics. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992.

_______. The Politics of Urban America: A Reader. Second Edition. Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Katzman, M.T. The Political Economy of Urban Schools. 1971.

Kemmis, Daniel.  The Good City and the Good Life.  Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Kershaw, Joseph A. Government Against Poverty. Chicago: Markham, 1970.

Kirp, David L.; Dwyer, John P.; and Rosenthal, Larry A.  Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia.  Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Klobuchar, Amy. Uncovering The Dome. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1982.

Kotler, Milton. Neighborhood Government. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (Fourth Printing) 1969.

Lamb, Karl A. As Orange Goes: Twelve California Families and the Future of American Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974.

Leland, Suzanne M..and Thurmaier, Kurt.  Editors.  Case Studies of City-County Consolidation.  M. E. Sharpe, 2004.

Levine, C.H. Racial Conflict and the American Mayor. 1974.

Levitan, Sar A.; Rein, Martin; and Marwick, David. Work and Welfare Go Together. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.

Levy, F.S.; Meltsner, A.J.; and Wildavsky, A. Urban Outcomes: Schools, Streets and Libraries. 1974.

Lewis, Paul G.  Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development.  University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Liebow, Elliot. Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

Lipsky, Michael. Protest in City Politics: Rent Strikes, Housing and the Power of the Poor. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1970.

Lowi, T.J. At the Pleasure of the Mayor:Patronage and Power in New York City, 1898-1958. 1964.

Lowi, Theodore J. "Machine Politics-Old and New". The Public Interest, No. 9 (Fall 1967).

Luttbeg, Norman R.  The Grassroots of Democracy: A Comparative Study of Competition and Its Impact in American Cities in the 1990s.  Lexington Books, 1999.

Makielski, S.J. The Politics of Zoning: The New York Experience, 1966.

Mann, Arthur. LaGuardia Comes to Power: 1933. Chicago: University of Chicago Press/ PhoenixBooks, 1965.

Marmor, Theodore R. Editor. Poverty Policy. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1971.

McKean, Dayton D. The Boss: The Hague Machine in Action. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940.

Meltsner, A.J. The Politics of City Revenue. 1971.

Miller, Zane L. Boss Cox's Cincinnati. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Mohl, Raymond A. Editor. The Making of Urban America. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1988.

Molotch, H.L. Managed Integration: Dilemmas of Doing Good in the City, 1973.

Morgan, David R. Managing Urban America. Third Edition. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1989.

Moynihan, Daniel P. The Politics of a Guaranteed Income. New York: Random House, 1973.

Nordlinger, E.A. Decentralizing the City: A Study of Boston's Little City Halls. 1972.

Norquest, John O.  The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Life.  Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Orfield, Gary and Lee, Chungmei.  Brown at 50: King's Dream or Plessy's Nightmare.  Harvard Civil Rights Project, 2004.

Orfield, Myron.  Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability.  Brookings Institution, 1997.

Pagano, Michael and Moore, Richard.  Cities and Fiscal Choices.  Duke University Press, 1985.

Pagano, Michael A. and Bowman, Ann O. M.  Cityscape and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development.  John Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Palley, Marian Lief, and Palley, Howard A. Urban America and Public Policies. D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1977.

Parkinson, Michael; Foley, Bernard; and Judd, Dennis R. Regenerating the Cities: The UK Crisis and the US Experience. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1989.

Patterson, Ernest. Black City Politics. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974.

Perloff, Harvey S. and Wingo, Lowdon, Jr. Issues in Urban Economics. The Johns Hopkins Press, Second Printing, 1969.

Petersen, John E. and Strachota, Dennis R.  Editors.  Local Government Finance: Concepts and Practices.  Government Finance Officers Association, 1991.

Pohlmann, Marcus D. Governing the Postindustrial City. New York: Longman, 1993.

Rae, Douglas W.  City: Urbanism and Its End.  Yale University Press, 2003.

Raimondo, Henry J.  Economics of State and Local Government.  Praeger, 1992.

Riordon, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. New York: E.P. Dutton, Paperback Ed., 1963.

Rossi, P.H., et al. The Roots of Urban Discontent: Public Policy, Municipal Institutions, and the Ghetto. 1974.

Rothblatt, Donald N. and Sanction, Andrew.  Editors.  Metropolitan Governance: American-Canadian Intergovernmental Perspectives.  Institute of Governmental Studies, 1993.

Royko, Mike. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago. New York: The New American Library, Inc., 1971.

Rusk, David.  Cities Without Suburbs.  Second Edition.  Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

_______.  Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America. Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

Savas, E. S.  Privatization: The Key to Better Government.  Second Edition. Chatham House, 1998.

Scheberle, Denise.  Federalism and Environmental Policy.  Second Edition.  Georgetown University Press, 2004.

Schill, Michael H. and Nathan, Richard P. Revitalizing America's Cities. Albany, NY:State University of New York, 1983.

Schneider,  Mark; Teske, Paul; and Marshall, Melissa.  Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools.  Princeton University Press, 2002.

Scott, Allen J. Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Stanley, D.T. Managing Local Government Under Union Pressure. 1972.

Steffens, Lincoln. The Shame of the Cities. New York: Hill and Wang, American Century Series Paperback, 1966.

Steinberg, Alfred. The Bosses. New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Steuerle, C. Eugene; Ooms, Van Doorn; Peterson, George; and Reischauer, Robert D.  Editors.  Vouchers and the Provision of Public Services.  Brookings Institution Press, 2000.

Stone, Clarence N.  Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988.  University Press of Kansas, 1989.

Stone, Clarence N.; Whelan, Robert K.; and Murin, William J. Urban Policy and Politics in a Bureaucratic Age. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1979.

Suttles, Gerald D. The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Tabb, William K. The Political Economy of the Black Ghetto: Why the Mass of Black Americans has been Forced to Accept Economic Deprivation in an Age of Prosperity. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1970.

Teaford, Jon C.  Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities.  John Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Thompson, F.J. Personnel Policy in the City: The Politics of Jobs in Oakland. 1975.

Thompson, Heather Ann.  Whose Detroit?:  Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City.  Cornell University Press, 2002

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Vergari, Sandra.  Editor.  The Charter School Landscape.  University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Vidich, A.J., and Bensman, J. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community. 1960.

Waste, Robert J.  Independent Cities: Rethinking U.S. Urban Policy.  Oxford University Press, 1998.

_______.  The Economy of City Policymaking. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Weaver, R. Kent.  Ending Welfare as We Know It.  Brookings Institution Press, 2000.

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_______. Urban Renewal: The Record and the Controversy. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1966.

Wilson, William Julius.  When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor.  Harvard University Press, 1996.

Witt, Linda; Paget, Karen M.; and Matthews, Glenna.  Running as a Woman: Gender and Politics in American Politics.  Free Press, 1994.

Witte, John F.  The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program.  Princeton University Press, 1999.

Wolman, Harold. Politics of Federal Housing. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971.

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Zimmerman, Joseph F.  State-Local Relations: A Partnership Approach.  Praeger, 1995.

_______. The Federated City: Community Control in Large Cities. 1972.

_______. The New England Town Meeting: Democracy in Action.  Praeger, 1999.

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