Publications
- Clarence N. Stone and the Study of Urban Politics
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- by Hochschild, Jennifer L.
- Among political scientists, the study of urban politics, whether within one nation or cross nationally, resembles the comparative study of national politics—with one crucial exception. In both the urban field and the comparative field, scholars typically come to know one or several localities very well... Clarence Stone is in the latter camp, with disturbingly few peers in political science scholarship on urban politics. He is deeply knowledgeable about Atlanta, Georgia, having studied its political development for decades. He is familiar with a dozen other American cities, having studied their educational reform efforts for years.With coauthors or independently, he has developed broad theoretical frameworks—regime analysis, the “power to” approach, the systemic bias of power and inequality, the centrality of agenda setting and coordination, the urgent need for democratic decision making—that explain actions and outcomes not only in his cities but in many others as well. All of this work is undergirded by a few simple, clear principles about human nature and the conduct of social science that are easy to state and surprisingly fecund.
- Publication Type: Published Paper
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- Field of Interest: Comparative Politics
- Hochschild, Jennifer L. "Clarence N. Stone and the Study of Urban Politics." In Power and the City, University Press of Kansas, Marion Orr and Valerie Johnson, eds. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas (forthcoming, 2008).
