POL346Y5 Lecture 9: POL346F-LEC 9
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Slide: people in urban politics: grace lee boggs. Supported civil rights, black power movements in detroit. Emphasis on community organizing and resurgent moral values- importance of peoples values. The way change happens is through grass root organization and moral values. Three ways of explaining who holds power and how power shapes urban outcomes: elite theory. There"s a(cid:374) elite (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess (cid:272)lass, high po(cid:449)er e(cid:454)e(cid:272)uti(cid:448)es or political leaders of some kind. There"s people that ha(cid:448)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to the le(cid:448)ers of po(cid:449)er a(cid:374)d the(cid:455)"re pulli(cid:374)g and pushing them behind the scenes: pluralism. Most different from elite theory in the sense that it starts from a fundamentally different premise. Power is distributed, everyone has access to system and ways of having their voice heard: regime theory. Part 1: history and background of urban politics. We tend to focus on the heads of municipal governments mayors. But broadly speaking though, we can think about leadership as:
