"Assesses the results of mayoral control nationwide, detailing the experience in three key cities: Boston and Chicago, the major prototypes for mayoral control, and Detroit, where mayoral control was not successful.

Using the school-choice systems in Milwaukee and Cleaveland as a basis, author Joseph P. Viteritti reviews a variety of policy initiatives enacted to promote educational opportunity and finds that the nation has fallen short of providing ...

This engaging story of the rise, fall, and rebirth of progressivism in America's major urban center demonstrates that the road to progress has been a long-and continuing-journey.

In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive.

USA. Monograph on the representation of Black and Puerto Rican minority groups in local government and in allocation of public services in context with the level of bureaucracy and decentralization in new york city - reviews political ...