Comparative Civic Culture: The Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making

Contents: Preface Part 1: Comparative civic culture: theory and methods Categorizing civic cultures: testing a typology of local civic culture. Part 2: Inclusive/bureaucratic cities: Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Vancouver Partnerships in Pittsburgh: civil cultures and organizational capacities: case study, Louise Jezierski Civic culture in Ottawa: the endurance of local culture: case study, Laura A. Reese, Raymond A. Rosenfeld and Davia C. Downey Vancouver: the sustainable city: case study, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly. Part 3: Market-active and passive cities: Charlotte, Calgary, Cleveland, Louisville Civic culture and corporate regime in Louisville: case study, H.V. Savitch, Takashi Tsukamoto and Ronald K. Vogel A perpetual crisis: Cleveland's unfinished, changing, and incomplete civic agenda: case study, Mittie Davis Jones and Jessica Faist-Witt Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture: case study, Hunter Bacot Civic culture in Calgary: the oil and developers' land: case study, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly. Part 4: Individualistic cities: Dallas and Miami A tale of two cities: civic culture and public policy in Miami: case study, Juliet F. Gainsborough The civic culture of Dallas, Texas: case study, Alicia C. Schortgen and Richard K. Scotch Conclusion: a theory of local civic culture Index.