Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan: Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers - Couverture rigide

Nickels, Ashley E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1439915660 ISBN 13 : 9781439915660

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2019

Synopsis

When the 2011 municipal takeover in Flint, Michigan placed the city under state control, some supported the intervention while others saw it as an affront to democracy. Still others were ambivalent about what was supposed to be a temporary disruption. However, the city's fiscal emergency soon became a public health emergency-the Flint Water Crisis-that captured international attention.

But how did Flint's municipal takeovers, which suspended local representational government, alter the local political system? In Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan, Ashley Nickels addresses the ways residents, groups, and organizations were able to participate politically-or not-during the city's municipal takeovers in 2002 and 2011. She explains how new politics were created as organizations developed, new coalitions emerged and evolved, and people's understanding of municipal takeovers changed.

Inwalking readers through the policy history of, implementation of, and reaction to Flint's two municipal takeovers, Nickels highlights how the ostensibly apolitical policy is, in fact, highly political.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ashley E. Nickels is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. She is the co-editor of Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439915660
• ISBN 13: 9781439915660
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible