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Trends in Urban Governance
Trends in Urban Governance
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observe that cities, in the face of federal cutbacks, have turned to a new entrepreneurial politics of growth and development that has supplanted the politics of social service delivery that predominated in the 1960s and 1970s: The national government Is focusing its resources more tightly upon direct service delivery and income redistribution, while cities are expanding beyond traditional delivery of municipal services to a wide range of entrepreneurial activities designed to stimulate economic activities, to create jobs, and to generate revenues, much of which are used to support the traditional service delivery. Other urban scholars (Judd and Ready, 1986:210, 215-215)
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Yet minority success in city politics relies on electoral organizing and coalition formation, even in predominantly black cities (Browning et al., 1984~. Black and Hispanic officials have worked to gain the support of business interests in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Denver, and Miami, even though sometimes they have been criticized by minority groups (Browning and Marshall, 19863.
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