Race and Authority in Urban Politics: Community Relations and the War on Poverty

by Paul E. Peterson, J. David Greenstone, Paul E Peterson, et al.

Book Overview

In this penetrating book, the authors provide a systematic empirical analysis of an important public policy issue--citizen participation in the Community Action Program of the Johnson administration's "War on Poverty." This Phoenix edition includes a new introduction in which the authors explicate the most important themes in their analysis.

In a series of lively chapters, Greenstone and Peterson show how the coalitions that formed around the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226307131
• ISBN13: 9780226307138
• Release Date: August 1976
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 6.0"