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Autore |
Sonenshein Raphael |
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The city at stake : secession, reform, and battle for Los Angeles / / with a new afterword by the author, Raphael J. Sonenshein |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-691-11590-7 |
1-4008-4964-0 |
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Edizione |
[With a New afterword by the author] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Secession - California - Los Angeles County |
Secession - California - Los Angeles |
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Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government |
Los Angeles County (Calif.) Politics and government |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Charters |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface: REFORM UNDER THE GUN -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. The Dynamics of Urban Reform -- PART TWO. The Roots of Los Angeles Charter Reform -- PART THREE. The Battle over the Charter -- PART FOUR. The Unified Charter -- PART FIVE. The Battle over Secession -- PART SIX. The Future of Urban Reform -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Afterword: Reform, Diversity, and the 2005 Election of Antonio Villaraigosa -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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in political bickering over charter reform, which generated the remarkable phenomenon of two competing charter reform commissions. Out of this nearly impossible tangle, reformers managed to knit a new city charter that greatly expanded institutions for citizen participation and addressed long-standing weaknesses in the role of the mayor. The new charter, pursued by a Republican mayor, won its greatest support from liberal whites who had long favored reform measures. Written by an urban scholar who played a key role in the charter reform process, the book offers both a theoretical perspective on the process of institutional reform in an age of diversity, and a firsthand, inside-the-box look at how major reform works. The new afterword by the author analyzes the 2005 election of Los Angeles's first modern Latino mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, a milestone in the development of urban reform coalitions in an age of immigration and ethnic diversity. |
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