Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier - Cities of the Prairie Revisited

The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland

List of contents

Introduction; I: Overview; 1: The Civil Community in the Federal System; 2: Closing the Metropolitan Frontier; 3: Political Culture and the Geology of Local Politics; 4: Continuing the Generational Rhythm; 5: Federalism versus Managerialism in the Civil Community; 2: Case Studies; 6: From Industrial City to Metropolitan Civil Community: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Pueblo; 7: Changing Expectations of Local Government in Light of the 1960s: The Cases of Champaign and Urbana; 8: The Agricommercial Tradition on the Metropolitan Frontier: Decatur; 9: The Effect of External Factors on the Medium-Sized Civil Community: The Case of Joliet

About the author

Daniel Elazar

Summary

The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the American Heartland

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Elazar, Daniel J Elazar, Daniel J. Elazar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138534766
• ISBN: 978-1-138-53476-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Political structures / systems: democracy