The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy - Softcover

Holman, Mirya R.

 
9781439926710: The Hidden Face of Local Power: Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1439926719 ISBN 13: 9781439926710
Verlag: Temple University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The Hidden Face of Local Power explicates the purpose, role, and consequences of appointed boards in U.S. cities. Mirya Holman finds that cities create strong boards that generate policy, consolidate power, and defend the interests of businesses and wealthy and white residents. In contrast, weak boards pacify agitation from marginalized groups to give the appearance of inclusivity, democratic deliberation, and redistributional policymaking. Cities preserve this strong board/weak board dichotomy through policymaking power, institutional design, and by controlling who serves on the boards.

The Hidden Face of Local Power examines the role of boards in the development of urban political institutions, the allocation of power in local politics, and the persistence of inequality. Holman enhances our understanding of how political institutions have contributed to racism and their impact on how people use and live in urban spaces. In her shrewd analysis of the creation and use of boards as political institutions, Holman proves that neither weak nor strong boards achieve the goal they are advertised to achieve. In doing so, she provides a new view of the failures of local democracy along with ideas for improvement.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mirya R. Holman is Associate Professor in the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston and author of Women in Politics in the American City (Temple) and coauthor of The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States.

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Verlag
Temple University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1439926719
ISBN 13 
9781439926710
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
270
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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