Race and Authority in Urban Politics

Preface to the Phoenix Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Participation in the War on Poverty
Part I: A Comparative Approach to the Politics of Community Action
1. Community Action Politics in Five Cities: The Limits of Case-Study Analysis
2. Role Interests and Comparative Analysis
Part II: Interests, Ideologues, and Participation
3. Class and Racial Interests in the Politics of Community Participation
4. Regime Interests and Ideologies: Participation and the Structure of Authority
5. Ideologies versus Electoral and Organizational Interests
Part III: Implementing Participation in Community Action Programs
6. Representation of the Poor in Community Action
7. Bureaucratic Influence on Participation in Community Action
Part IV: Political Structures, Policy-Making Processes, and Public Policy
8. Political Structures: Citizen Preferences, Political Organization, and Public Policy
9. Policy-Making Processes: Conflict, Consensus, and Regime Transformation
10. A Policy Analysis: Race, Politics, and Community Control
Appendix A: Stability, Conflict, and Regime Interests
Appendix B: Methodological Note on the Index of Localism
Notes
Index