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Blazing the Neoliberal Trail : Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292220
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blazing the Neoliberal TrailDDC classification:
  • 320.513
LOC classification:
  • HB95.W42 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Neoliberalization of National Urban Policy -- Chapter 1. Losing the Battle but Winning the War: The Story of the Federal Enterprise Zone Program That Never Was: 1980-1992 -- Chapter 2. Dealing with Those Inner Cities: The Neoliberal Turn in British Urban Policy -- Chapter 3. Blair and Clinton: A Third Way? -- Part II. Neoliberalism in the Trenches: Urban Politics in Philadelphia and London -- Chapter 4. Neoliberalism in the Trenches: Philadelphia 1951-1991 -- Chapter 5. ''America's Mayor'' Comes to Power in Philadelphia: The Consolidation of the Corporate City Under Ed Rendell -- Chapter 6. Neoliberalism by Design: Poverty and Plenty in London's Docklands -- Conclusion. The Neoliberal Persuasion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Blazing the Neoliberal Trail asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. Drawing on extensive archival research, Timothy P. R. Weaver shows how elites became persuaded by neoliberal ideas and remade political institutions in their image.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Neoliberalization of National Urban Policy -- Chapter 1. Losing the Battle but Winning the War: The Story of the Federal Enterprise Zone Program That Never Was: 1980-1992 -- Chapter 2. Dealing with Those Inner Cities: The Neoliberal Turn in British Urban Policy -- Chapter 3. Blair and Clinton: A Third Way? -- Part II. Neoliberalism in the Trenches: Urban Politics in Philadelphia and London -- Chapter 4. Neoliberalism in the Trenches: Philadelphia 1951-1991 -- Chapter 5. ''America's Mayor'' Comes to Power in Philadelphia: The Consolidation of the Corporate City Under Ed Rendell -- Chapter 6. Neoliberalism by Design: Poverty and Plenty in London's Docklands -- Conclusion. The Neoliberal Persuasion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

Blazing the Neoliberal Trail asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. Drawing on extensive archival research, Timothy P. R. Weaver shows how elites became persuaded by neoliberal ideas and remade political institutions in their image.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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