Urban Politics and the Production of Capital Mobility in the United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1691-1706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pendras
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
The United States

Coda: theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Sean Parson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

In the Coda, the lessons and theoretical positions of the entire document are condensed into four short theses, which can start a conversation around the role and politics of a radical homeless urban politics within the context of the twenty-first-century capitalist political economy and the rise of Trumpism in the United States.

The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Kelleher Palus ◽  
Richardson Dilworth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
The United States

Federal Policy, Banking Market Structure, and Capital Mobilization in the United States, 1863–1913

1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sylla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Capital Movement ◽  
Critical Determinant ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
Banking Development ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Similar Development

The success with which capital funds are mobilized and transferred to industrial and related activities is widely regarded as a critical determinant of both the timing and the pace of industrialization in the modern era. Gerschenkron, for example, has suggested that institutional developments which increased this type of capital mobility played an important role in the varying degrees of industrial progress of nineteenth-century European countries. A functionally similar development, resulting from government intervention at the time of the Civil War, occurred in American banking and provided a powerful capital-supply stimulus for the United States's postbellum industrialization. This study deals with the origins of this banking development, presents an analysis of its potential effects on patterns of capital movement, and tests the hypotheses arrived at in the theoretical analysis using banking data derived primarily from theReportsof the Comptroller of the Currency.

Black and Multiracial Politics in America Edited by Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh and Lawrence J. Hanks. New York: New York University Press, 2000. 404p. $55.00 cloth, $21.00 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-630
Author(s):  
Michael K. Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Waves

The waves of immigrants arriving in the United States over the last 20 years, largely from Latin America and Asia, have settled in a few states—mainly California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey—and in big cities in those states. Like the migration of African Americans to northern cities in the twentieth century and the suburbanization of whites, this demographic transformation is remaking urban politics. Black and Multiracial Politics in America, a collection of original essays, addresses the implications of this change for “the practice and process of black and multiracial politics in American society” (p. xiii). The authors seek to forge a new link between the study of black and the study of multiracial politics.

scholarly journals Policy Design and the Politics of City Revenue: Evidence from California Municipal Ballot Measures

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1312-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac William Martin ◽  
Jane Lilly Lopez ◽  
Lauren Olsen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Local Taxes ◽  
Ballot Measures

Residents of the United States rely on municipal governments to deliver important public goods but are often reluctant to pay for those goods. Can tax policy design affect voters’ propensity to say yes to local taxes? We answer this question by analyzing a new database of 929 tax increases of heterogeneous design that were proposed to California voters from 1996 to 2010. We find that voters’ willingness to raise a municipal tax varies with the choice of tax base, as well as with such policy design features as its timing and its symbolic links to particular purposes. The political limits on city revenue may vary substantially depending on how a tax is designed, and theories that assume otherwise—including several classic models of urban politics—may exaggerate the degree to which municipal revenues are constrained.

scholarly journals Varieties of Urbanism: A Comparative View of Inequality and the Dual Dimensions of Metropolitan Fragmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonah Freemark ◽  
Justin Steil ◽  
Kathleen Thelen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Fiscal Competition ◽  
Metropolitan Fragmentation

A large literature on urban politics documents the connection between metropolitan fragmentation and inequality. This article situates the United States comparatively to explore the structural features of local governance that underpin this connection. Examining five metropolitan areas in North America and Europe, the article identifies two distinct dimensions of fragmentation: (a) fragmentation through jurisdictional proliferation (dividing regions into increasing numbers of governments) and (b) fragmentation through resource hoarding (via exclusion, municipal parochialism, and fiscal competition). This research reveals how distinctive the United States is in the ways it combines institutional arrangements that facilitate metropolitan fragmentation (through jurisdictional proliferation) and those that reward such fragmentation (through resource-hoarding opportunities). Non-US cases furnish examples of policies that reduce jurisdictional proliferation or remove resource-hoarding opportunities. Mitigating the inequality-inducing effects of fragmentation is possible, but policies must be designed with an identification of the specific aspects of local governance structures that fuel inequality in the first place.

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