Cynthia Horan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Horan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Horan |
| SIGNATURE | HORAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9159-6422 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Neoliberalizing infrastructure: Financing public transportation in Greater Boston
Scholars propose that examining infrastructure policies allows interrogation of regional processes. This study situates Greater Boston's public transportation policies in scholarship on neoliberal policy-making in other urban regions. Engaging analyses of "actually existing neoliberalism" as path dependent, contradictory strategies of restructuring, we argue that policies addressing the region's postwar transportation and economic crises have, ov…
Putting Class in the “Underclass”: Adolph Reed on Urban Poverty
For over two decades, Adolph Reed has offered a compelling, contrarian view of urban poverty through his writings on the “underclass.” This article shows the distinctiveness of Reed’s account: his emphasis on the “underclass” as a political classification rather than as an economic or political condition, his focus on relationships among groups rather than on the deficiencies of one group, and his attention to how seemingly anti-poverty constitue…
The Politics of Competitive Regionalism in Greater Boston
Neil Brenner argues that contemporary scholarship often neglects the changing contexts of regionalism and thus overstates the possibilities for organizing new political responses to changing economic conditions. Drawing on Brenner’s analysis, this paper examines the politics of regionalism in Greater Boston, a metropolitan area where state government plays the dominant role in policymaking. It examines how state elected officials have responded t…
Community Development, Racial Empowerment, and Politics
Racializing Regime Politics
This article considers in what ways Clarence Stone’s urban regime paradigm is a useful framework for analyzing African American politics in cities. The article begins with a critical appraisal by Jeffrey Edwards that largely dismisses Stone’s study of Atlanta. It then offers a different interpretation of Stone’s scholarship, showing where Edwards shortchanges Stone’s framework and where his criticisms seem appropriate. The article then discusses …
Governing Massachusetts: Uneven Development and Politics in Metropolitan Boston
This paper analyzes governance and politics in Massachusetts in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a regulationist analysis of the “mode of social regulation” as well as urban regime theory's emphasis on governing coalitions, we show how spatial restructuring has transformed governing coalitions, governance structures, and local politics. Empirically, we note the importance of the Greater Boston area to the Commonwealth's recent economic recovery but poi…
Beyond Governing Coalitions: Analyzing Urban Regimes in the 1990S
This paper argues that economic restructuring is best analyzed as potentially a two-way relationship between global forces and local actors. The research and concepts in the literature on growth machines, governing coalitions, and urban regimes are central to that two-way relationship, but the focus on political coalitions must be broadened. Two changes are proposed: (1) the focus on coalitions must be accompanied by analysis of the mobility of l…
"Organizing the "New Boston: Growth Policy, Governing Coalitions & Tax Reform
John Winthrop, in the pristine conditions of original settlement, envisioned Boston as a beacon of virtue, a shining city upon a hill. By the end of World War II, however, the "hub" city of New England had become anything but that. This article examines the political coalition of business and other interests that came together behind tax reform that triggered the economic revitalization of Boston
Beyond Governing Coalitions: Analyzing Urban Regimes in the 1990S
This paper argues that economic restructuring is best analyzed as potentially a two-way relationship between global forces and local actors. The research and concepts in the literature on growth machines, governing coalitions, and urban regimes are central to that two-way relationship, but the focus on political coalitions must be broadened. Two changes are proposed: (1) the focus on coalitions must be accompanied by analysis of the mobility of l…
Racializing Regime Politics
This article considers in what ways Clarence Stone’s urban regime paradigm is a useful framework for analyzing African American politics in cities. The article begins with a critical appraisal by Jeffrey Edwards that largely dismisses Stone’s study of Atlanta. It then offers a different interpretation of Stone’s scholarship, showing where Edwards shortchanges Stone’s framework and where his criticisms seem appropriate. The article then discusses …
Governing Massachusetts: Uneven Development and Politics in Metropolitan Boston
This paper analyzes governance and politics in Massachusetts in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a regulationist analysis of the “mode of social regulation” as well as urban regime theory's emphasis on governing coalitions, we show how spatial restructuring has transformed governing coalitions, governance structures, and local politics. Empirically, we note the importance of the Greater Boston area to the Commonwealth's recent economic recovery but poi…
The Politics of Competitive Regionalism in Greater Boston
Neil Brenner argues that contemporary scholarship often neglects the changing contexts of regionalism and thus overstates the possibilities for organizing new political responses to changing economic conditions. Drawing on Brenner’s analysis, this paper examines the politics of regionalism in Greater Boston, a metropolitan area where state government plays the dominant role in policymaking. It examines how state elected officials have responded t…
"Organizing the "New Boston: Growth Policy, Governing Coalitions & Tax Reform
John Winthrop, in the pristine conditions of original settlement, envisioned Boston as a beacon of virtue, a shining city upon a hill. By the end of World War II, however, the "hub" city of New England had become anything but that. This article examines the political coalition of business and other interests that came together behind tax reform that triggered the economic revitalization of Boston
Neoliberalizing infrastructure: Financing public transportation in Greater Boston
Scholars propose that examining infrastructure policies allows interrogation of regional processes. This study situates Greater Boston's public transportation policies in scholarship on neoliberal policy-making in other urban regions. Engaging analyses of "actually existing neoliberalism" as path dependent, contradictory strategies of restructuring, we argue that policies addressing the region's postwar transportation and economic crises have, ov…
Putting Class in the “Underclass”: Adolph Reed on Urban Poverty
For over two decades, Adolph Reed has offered a compelling, contrarian view of urban poverty through his writings on the “underclass.” This article shows the distinctiveness of Reed’s account: his emphasis on the “underclass” as a political classification rather than as an economic or political condition, his focus on relationships among groups rather than on the deficiencies of one group, and his attention to how seemingly anti-poverty constitue…
"Organizing the "New Boston: Growth Policy, Governing Coalitions & Tax Reform
John Winthrop, in the pristine conditions of original settlement, envisioned Boston as a beacon of virtue, a shining city upon a hill. By the end of World War II, however, the "hub" city of New England had become anything but that. This article examines the political coalition of business and other interests that came together behind tax reform that triggered the economic revitalization of Boston
Beyond Governing Coalitions: Analyzing Urban Regimes in the 1990S
This paper argues that economic restructuring is best analyzed as potentially a two-way relationship between global forces and local actors. The research and concepts in the literature on growth machines, governing coalitions, and urban regimes are central to that two-way relationship, but the focus on political coalitions must be broadened. Two changes are proposed: (1) the focus on coalitions must be accompanied by analysis of the mobility of l…
Governing Massachusetts: Uneven Development and Politics in Metropolitan Boston
This paper analyzes governance and politics in Massachusetts in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a regulationist analysis of the “mode of social regulation” as well as urban regime theory's emphasis on governing coalitions, we show how spatial restructuring has transformed governing coalitions, governance structures, and local politics. Empirically, we note the importance of the Greater Boston area to the Commonwealth's recent economic recovery but poi…
Racializing Regime Politics
This article considers in what ways Clarence Stone’s urban regime paradigm is a useful framework for analyzing African American politics in cities. The article begins with a critical appraisal by Jeffrey Edwards that largely dismisses Stone’s study of Atlanta. It then offers a different interpretation of Stone’s scholarship, showing where Edwards shortchanges Stone’s framework and where his criticisms seem appropriate. The article then discusses …
Community Development, Racial Empowerment, and Politics
The Politics of Competitive Regionalism in Greater Boston
Neil Brenner argues that contemporary scholarship often neglects the changing contexts of regionalism and thus overstates the possibilities for organizing new political responses to changing economic conditions. Drawing on Brenner’s analysis, this paper examines the politics of regionalism in Greater Boston, a metropolitan area where state government plays the dominant role in policymaking. It examines how state elected officials have responded t…
Putting Class in the “Underclass”: Adolph Reed on Urban Poverty
For over two decades, Adolph Reed has offered a compelling, contrarian view of urban poverty through his writings on the “underclass.” This article shows the distinctiveness of Reed’s account: his emphasis on the “underclass” as a political classification rather than as an economic or political condition, his focus on relationships among groups rather than on the deficiencies of one group, and his attention to how seemingly anti-poverty constitue…
Neoliberalizing infrastructure: Financing public transportation in Greater Boston
Scholars propose that examining infrastructure policies allows interrogation of regional processes. This study situates Greater Boston's public transportation policies in scholarship on neoliberal policy-making in other urban regions. Engaging analyses of "actually existing neoliberalism" as path dependent, contradictory strategies of restructuring, we argue that policies addressing the region's postwar transportation and economic crises have, ov…
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