Managing Crisis Cities: The New Black Leadership and the Politics of Resource Allocation

by Bette Woody

During the past two decades, one of the most significant political and social changes has been the transfer of urban political leadership from aging ethnic-dominated political machines to coalitions led by blacks in cities such as Detroit, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Newark, and New Orleans. Bette Woody's analysis of modern urban government examines the political transformation of the 1970s and 1980s in the context of the failures of machine politics, traditional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313230951
• ISBN13: 9780313230950
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"