Neighborhood Organization and Interest-Group Processes (eBook)

David J. O'Brien (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6874-2 (ISBN)

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Since the end of the civil rights era in the sixties it has become increasingly clear that social and political conflicts cannot be resolved entirely at the national level. Struggles between residents of poor neighborhoods and local interest groups or public authorities present some of our most explosive domestic political problems today. This study seeks insight into these problems through an analysis of efforts during the sixties to organize the poor to pursue their interests in local decision-making processes. David J. O'Brien holds that both organizers and scholarly observers of the grass-roots movement have failed to understand properly the process by which interest groups are formed. Arguing that the demise of neighborhood organization cannot be attributed to supposedly unique social, psychological, or cultural characteristics of the poor, he develops an analytical framework that emphasizes the strategic role of incentives and organizational resource problems. This framework helps explain not only the failure of organizers in the sixties to grasp the problems of interest group formation, but also the assumptions that prevented them from identifying the source of their frustration. The author assesses the different approaches that have been taken to neighborhood organization, and outlines a model for future efforts.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • Advocacy • Advocacy group • Autonomous communities of Spain • Case study • Class action • class consciousness • Cloward–Piven strategy • Collective Action • collective bargaining • collective behavior • Community association • community development • community integration • community leader • community mobilization • community organization • community standards • Competition • Consumer Education • Consumers' co-operative • Cost–benefit analysis • decentralization • Decision-Making • Election • Employment • ethnic group • Funding • Governance • Grassroots • Ideology • income • Individual and group rights • Industrial Areas Foundation • Institution • Job Security • Legislation • Local community • local government • Market power • mass society • Mayor–council government • minority group • National Labor Relations Act • neighborhood association • Neighbourhood unit • Norm (social) • obstacle • of education • opportunity structures • organization • Organizational Structure • Organizing (management) • police state • Political organization • Political Sociology • Politician • Politics • Prerogative • Profession • Protest • Public Choice • Racial segregation • Residential Area • Saul Alinsky • Selective enforcement • Sense of Community • Slum • slumlord • Social Action • social actions • Social Class • Social Disorganization Theory • Social integration • social issue • Social organization • social planner • social relation • Social Responsibility • Social Science • Social Status • Social Structure • Society • Socioeconomic Status • Sociology • Subculture • Subsidy • suburb • Trade-off • Underpinning • Union Movement • urbanization • Urban renewal • Utopia • Vested interest (communication theory) • Voting • Voucher • War on Poverty • welfare • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6874-2 / 1400868742
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6874-2 / 9781400868742