Urban Politics

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Mobilizing the Metropolis

How the Port Authority Built New York

By Philip Mark Plotch & Jen Nelles
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Urban Studies, Urban Politics

Durable lessons from New York on collaboration, leadership, and overcoming complex political challenges

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil’s Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia

Welcome to the Twenty-First Century

By Pablo Baisotti
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies

The modernity of the new century

Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency

The Routes of Terror in an African Context

By Daniel E Agbiboa
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Urban Politics

Mobility as the driving force of armed conflict

City Diplomacy

From City-States to Global Cities

By Raffaele Marchetti
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Urban Politics

How urban diplomacy defines international relations globally

Water and Politics

Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico

By Veronica Herrera
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies

Examines how public water service becomes a political tool in Mexican cities and uncovers the politics of water provision in developing democracies

Majoritarian Cities

Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics

By Neil Kraus
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Urban Politics, Public Policy

Popular public policies often fail to address the needs of the disadvantaged in American cities

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Civil Rights in Multiracial America

By Kim M. Williams
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, African American Studies, History, African American History, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Law, Law and Society, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Urban Politics, Public Policy
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape

Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln

By Tasha Philpot
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics, Urban Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political Communication, African American Studies, Sociology
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

How political parties use racial issues to manipulate their image and public opinion

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