Seattle: Grassroots Politics Shaping the Environment

Gordon, Margaret S.; Locke, Hubert G.; Mccutcheon, Laurie; Stafford, William B.

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“…Between 1940 and 1944, regional employment in shipbuilding and aircraft manufacture grew from 14 000 to 132 000 (MacDonald, 1987). Yet the region’s dependence on Boeing could also be a liability as the aerospace sector experienced a series of expansions and contractions coinciding with the beginning and end of major overseas conflicts (Gordon et al . 1991; Gray et al , 1999).…”

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Civic Culture, Sub-cultures, Non-traditionalism and Progressive Policy

Rosdil¹

2011

Urban Studies

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Even as some observers criticise its insularity and excessive dependence on political economy approaches, urban politics research has recently witnessed a profusion of studies employing cultural methods. This paper will review how researchers have used cultural methods in explaining political outcomes. It will argue that, in the US context, a sub-cultural model based on a traditionalism/non-traditionalism dichotomy offers greater potential than other approaches to account effectively for progressive strategies which seem illogical within a political economy framework. Finally, it explains how growing non-traditionalism and the global economy jointly explain the increasing acceptability of progressive development among both urban residents and corporate interests in US post-industrial cities. The paper illustrates these claims by applying this framework to development outcomes in Seattle and Las Vegas.(2007) complain of a lack of intellectual tolerance and an inability to distinguish between impartial scholarship on urban conditions and advocacy on behalf of saving the cities. In addition, a certain rigidity and intellectual stagnation in the process of theoretical development, apparent in its bias towards economic determinism,

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Civic Culture, Sub-cultures, Non-traditionalism and Progressive Policy

Rosdil¹

2011

Urban Studies

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“…Six regimes, in the cities of Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, were classified as developmental. Fort Lauderdale Stone (1989Stone ( , 2001 Baltimore Progressive Levine (1987), Orr (1992), Stoker (1987) Chicago Developmental Bennett et al (1988), Mier, Moe, and Sherr (1986), Ferman (1996) Detroit Developmental Klemanski (1993, 1999), Orr and Stoker (1994), Rich (1991) Ft. Lauderdale Caretaker Turner (1992), Vogel (1992) Houston Developmental Capek and Gilderbloom (1992), Feagin (1988), Parker and Feagin (1990), Thomas and Murray (1992) Minneapolis Progressive Nickel (1995) New Orleans Caretaker Whelan (1987), Whelan and Young (1991), Whelan, Young, and Lauria (1994) Pittsburgh Developmental Ferman (1996) Portland Progressive Leo (1998) San Francisco Progressive DeLeon (1991, 1992a, 1992b), Keating (1986) Seattle Progressive Gordon et al (1991) St. Louis Developmental Glassberg (1991) Tampa Progressive Kerstein (1991), Turner (1992) and New Orleans were classified as caretaker. The remaining six cities, Baltimore, Portland, Minneapolis, Tampa, San Francisco, and Seattle, were governed by a progressive regime.…”

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“…For instance, although this configuration displays a common pattern across the three cities, all of the authors emphasize the importance of cultural factors in reorienting the regimes toward progressive concerns. In the cases of Seattle and Portland, both Gordon et al (1991) and Leo (1998) describe the ascendancy of a middle-class population concerned with environmental protection, whereas DeLeon (1991) chronicles the growth of a postmaterialist population that supported the progressive regimes in San Francisco.…”

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Explaining U.S. Urban Regimes

Kilburn

2004

Urban Affairs Review

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The author studies the influence of city context on urban regimes across 14 cities in the United States by surveying published case studies and applying qualitative comparative analysis. To explain variation in a regime typology, the author tests components of market conditions (a city’s fiscal resource base and mobility of local capital) and democratic conditions (local civic participation and ward-style representation). The results indicate that not one of these components is necessary or sufficient for supporting the emergence of a more progressive, as opposed to a developmental or caretaker, regime. Instead, three interactions between the components of market and democratic conditions explain the presence of progressive regimes. The author discusses the implications of the results for both studying and understanding U.S. regimes.

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“…Not only are there a large number of active groups, there are also an unusual number of federations of groups. City elections are at-large; they are bipartisan but all mayors since 1970 have been Democrats (Gordon et al, 1991). 75% of Seattle's population is white; the Asian (11.8%), black (10.1 %) and Hispanic (3.6%) population is growing steadily, with Asians increasing most rapidly.…”

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Institutional Logics and Local Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Eight American Cities*

Clarke

1995

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Seattle: Grassroots Politics Shaping the Environment

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Civic Culture, Sub-cultures, Non-traditionalism and Progressive Policy

Civic Culture, Sub-cultures, Non-traditionalism and Progressive Policy

Explaining U.S. Urban Regimes

Institutional Logics and Local Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Eight American Cities*

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