Blazing the neoliberal trail : urban political development in the United States and the United Kingdom

Blazing the neoliberal trail : urban political development in the United States and the United Kingdom / Timothy P.R. Weaver.

In Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Timothy Weaver asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. He argues that politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to rem...

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Main Author: Weaver, Timothy P. R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Neoliberalism > United States.
Neoliberalism > Great Britain.
Inner cities > United States.
Inner cities > Great Britain.
Neoliberalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Neoliberalism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Neoliberalism > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Comparative Politics.
Inner cities
Neoliberalism
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Great Britain
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The neoliberalization of national urban policy. Losing the battle but winning the war : the story of the Federal Enterprise Zone program that never was : 1980-1992 ; Dealing with those inner cities : the neoliberal turn in British urban policy ; Blair and Clinton : a third way?
  • Neoliberalism in the trenches : urban politics in Philadelphia and London. Neoliberalism in the trenches : Philadelphia 1951-1991 ; "America's mayor" comes to power in Philadelphia : the consolidation of the corporate city under Ed Rendell ; Neoliberalism by design : poverty and plenty in London's docklands
  • Conclusion. The neoliberal persuasion.

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