Comparative civic culture
Published by : Ashgate, (Burlington, Vt. :) Physical details: xiv, 415 p. : ill.-
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comparative civic culture: theory and methods -- Categorizing civic cultures: testing a typology of local civic culture -- Inclusive/bureaucratic cities: Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Vancouver -- Partnerships in Pittsburgh: civic cultures and organizational capacities -- Civic culture in Ottawa: the endurance of local culture -- Vancouver: the sustainable city -- Market-active and passive cities: Charlotte, Calgary, Cleveland, Louisville -- Civic culture and corporate regime in Louisville -- A perpetual crisis: Cleveland's unfinished, changing, and incomplete civic agenda -- Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture -- Civic culture in Calgary: the oil and developers' land -- Individualistic cities: Dallas and Miami -- A tale of two cities: civic culture and public policy in Miami -- The civic culture of Dallas, Texas -- Conclusion: a theory of local civic culture.
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