Cities, Mayors, and Race Relations: Task Forces as Agents of Race-Based Policy Innovations - Softcover

Middleton, Richard T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761841091 ISBN 13: 9780761841098

Publisher: UPA, 2008

Synopsis

Cities, Mayors, and Race Relations analyzes the politics behind improving race relations in local communities through the use of mayoral task forces. By investigating three communities with unique cultural, social, economic, and racial characteristics, author Richard T. Middleton provides insight into why some communities are more likely to realize success in influencing policy makers to adopt policy innovations aimed at improving race relations than are others. This book chronicles how political culture, level of racial threat, factors central to task force formation, and staffing affect the likelihood that mayoral leadership and use of government organized nongovernmental organizations will persuade local level actors to adopt policies aimed at improving race relations. To study this phenomenon, Cities, Mayors, and Race Relations focuses on three cities: Madison, Wisconsin, Columbia, Missouri, and Kansas City, Missouri.

About this title

About the Author

Richard T. Middleton, IV, (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia; JD, St. Louis University) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Adjunct Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law

Edition details

• Publisher: UPA
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761841091
• ISBN 13: 9780761841098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190