Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City

Released on by Susan A. Ostrander
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  • Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City Book Detail

  • Author : Susan A. Ostrander
  • Release Date : 2013
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Genre : Citizenship
  • Pages : 190
  • ISBN 13 : 1439910146
  • File Size : 20,20 MB
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Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City by Susan A. Ostrander PDF Summary

Book Description: Overcoming a past of deteriorating homes, empty storefronts, and corrupt city administrations, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, today proudly defines itself as a longtime immigrant city, a historically blue collar town, and a hip new urban center with a progressive city government. In Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City, Susan Ostrander shows how beneath current high levels of engagement by Somerville residents lies a struggle about who should be the city's elected leaders and how they should conduct the city's affairs. It is a struggle waged bet.

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