Democracy in Suburbia / / J. Eric Oliver.
Suburbanization is often blamed for a loss of civic engagement in contemporary America. How justified is this claim? Just what is a suburb? How do social environments shape civic life? Looking beyond popular stereotypes, Democracy in Suburbia answers these questions by examining how suburbs influenc...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 24 tables, 36 line illus., 5 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE The Rise of a Suburban Demos
- CHAPTER TWO All Cities Great and Small
- CHAPTER THREE Cities of Riches and Squalor
- CHAPTER FOUR The Civic Paradox of Racial Segregation
- CHAPTER FIVE A Bedroom Polis
- CHAPTER SIX Boomtowns and the Civic Costs of Air-Conditioning
- CHAPTER SEVEN Reform Governments and Their Aftermath
- CHAPTER EIGHT Remaking the Democratic Metropolis
- APPENDIX A The Citizen Participation / Census Dataset
- APPENDIX B Logistic and OLS Regression Equations for the Figures
- APPENDIX C Testing the Relationship between Civic Participation and “Self-Interest Rightly Understood”
- References
- Index