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 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 Siegel's Annual Editions: Urban Society contains a number of recent magazine and journal articles.

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, some students 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 from ten to fifteen 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. 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 1:00 to 3:00 and from 8:00 to 8:30 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.ctstateu.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 Rosenberg, Jan. Editors. Annual Editions: Urban Society. Ninth Edition. Hightstown, NJ: McGraw-Hill, 1999.
 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Downs, A. Urban Problems and Prospects. 1970.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Harrigan, John J. Political Change in the Metropolis. Fifth Edition. New York: Longman, 1993.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Shuman, Michael.  Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Skogan, Wesley G. Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods. 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.

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.

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

Thompson, Wilbur R. A Preface to Urban Economics. Resources for the Future, Inc. (1755 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.)/ Johns Hopkins Paperbacks Edition (Fourth Printing), 1972.

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

Waste, Robert J. The Economy of City Policymaking. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Weaver, Robert C. Dilemmas of Urban America. New York: Atheneum, 1965.

Wilson, James Q. Editor. The Metropolitan Enigma: Inquiries into the Nature and Dimension of Americans' Urban Crisis. Harvard University Press, 1968.

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

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

Yates, D. Neighborhood Democracy: The Politics and Impacts of Decentralization. 1973.

Zimmerman, J.F. The Federated City: Community Control in Large Cities. 1972.

Zisk, B.H. Local Interest Politics: A One-Way Street. 1973.