GOVT 3111 - [Urban Politics]

(crosslisted) AMST 3111
(SBA-AS)

Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

M. Shefter.

The major political actors, institutions, and political styles in large American cities: mayors, city councils, bureaucracies, ethnic and racial minorities, urban machine politics and the municipal reform movement. The implications of these political forces for policies pertaining to urban poverty, homelessness, and criminal justice.