Steven P Erie
Biographic Data
| ID | 253587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven P Erie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven P |
| FAMILY NAME | Erie |
| SIGNATURE | ERIE S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociology, Erie examines a wide range of issues, including the relationship between city and state politics, the manner in which machines shaped ethnic and wo…
Machine Bosses, Reformers, and the Politics of Ethnic and Minority Incorporation
Throughout American history, political party organizations have served both as effective forces of political incorporation of newly arriving immigrants and as powerful barriers to fuller representation for minority groups. This chapter examines how urban political leaders and institutions have shaped the political emergence or suppression of ethnic groups from the Civil War era to the early twenty-first century. With particular focus on New York …
Southern California’s Crown Jewels: Historical Governance and Finance Lessons
This study offers an historical overview of how major public infrastructure projects were accomplished in the Los Angeles region in the absence of a formal regional general-purpose government. This study’s focus is on the governance and financing of Southern California’s “crown jewels”—water, port, and airport megaprojects crucial to the region’s improbable yet phenomenal 20th-century growth. Specifically, the authors (a) review scholarly debates…
Redevelopment, San Diego Style: The Limits of Public—Private Partnerships
Fiscally strapped local governments have increasingly turned to public—private partnerships (P3s) for redevelopment assistance, empowering private actors to exercise functions typically performed by the public sector. While P3s can enhance project funding and completion, they create the possibility of agency loss, that is, public means—tax dollars, public powers, and other resources—being diverted toward private purposes. Using a principal— agent…
The L.A. School and Politics Noir: Bringing the Local State Back In
This essay critically reevaluates two key components of the L.A. School of Urbanism research program. First, we reconsider the L.A. School’s alternative to the concentric circles model of urban growth developed by the Chicago School. Second, we reexamine its account of Los Angeles’s modern development and transformation into a global city. We conclude that the L.A. School, much like the Chicago School it critiques, pays insufficient attention to …
Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938-1953
Journal Article Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953 Get access Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953. By Sitton Tom. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xvi + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $32.50.) Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…
Fiscal Constraints and the Loss of Home Rule: The Long-Term Impacts of California’s Post-Proposition 13 Fiscal Regime
The passage of Proposition 13 in 1978 was a watershed event that ushered in both a new era and a new fiscal regime for California’s local governments. The authors argue that in the wake of follow-on initiatives, a protracted recessionary period, and the state’s use of newly authorized revenue-transfer powers, this still-evolving regime entered a new phase in the 1990s. This article analyzes the primary impacts of and responses to the changes in C…
To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City
From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines. Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and Puerto Rican migrants- on the Irish-dominated pol…
Los Angeles Past Imperfect
Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991
How the Urban West was Won: The Local State and Economic Growth in Los Angeles, 1880-1932
The author examines early Los Angeles's transition from an essentially entrepreneurial growth regime (1880-1906) to a more state-centered growth regime (1906-1932). The analysis highlights the role of public infrastructure projects-water, power, and the harbor- and of powerful local bureaucracies, such as the Department of Water and Power, in shaping the region's Progressive Era development. Los Angeles's reliance upon a public strategy of econom…
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis
Journal Article City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis Get access City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis. New York, Verso Press, 1990. 462 pp. $24.95. Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 177–178, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Bringing the Bosses Back in: The Irish Political Machines and Urban Policy Making
Recently historians have ventured a multifaceted critique of boss rule, suggesting that the very existence of the political machine has been exaggerated, that machines did not materially affect patterns of political mobilization, had only a limited role in the making of public policy, and (contrary to pluralist theory) did little to improve the welfare of the ethnic working class. For these revisionists the boss was really a bit player in the era…
Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
The Pameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860-1906. Terrence J. McDonald
America's Ethnic Politics. Joseph S. Roucek , Bernard Eisenberg
Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework, by Joseph Rothschild
Journal Article Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework, by Joseph Rothschild Get access Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework by Joseph Rothschild. New York, Columbia University Press, 1981. 290 pp. $22.50. Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 3, Fall 1982, Pages 563–564, https://doi.org/10.2307/215004…
The Politics of Displacement: Racial and Ethnic Transition in Three American Cities, by Peter K. Eisinger
Two Faces of Ethnic Power: Comparing the Irish & Black Experiences
Since the late 1960's the legend of the political success of Irish Americans and its implications for the distribution of public resources has been established as a model for black political and economic advancement. In order to assess the value of the Irish experience for present and future black strategies, Steven Erie here re-examines the Irish success story, separating myth from reality. He questions the effect of political mobilization on th…
Politics, the Public Sector and Irish Social Mobility: San Francisco, 1870-1900
FROM the 1940s through the early 1960s several leading social scientists outlined a political' model of immigrant, primarily Irish, social mobility in late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban America. The most elaborate statement of the argument was made in Robert A. Dahl's 1961 analysis of New Haven politics, Who Governs? Its general contours, however, were evident in earlier work by William Foote Whyte (1943), Robert K. Merton (1949), …
The Study of City Governance and Public Policy Making: A Critical Appraisal
M unicipalities have traditionally been assigned a large role in our federal system by politicians, administrators, and citizens alike.Today, however, the very worth of cities as appropriate governmental structures is severely challenged.Banfield, in The Unbeavenly City, argues that urban citizens are better off than they realize and that "do-gooder" efforts, including most current urban-oriented programs, often only serve to make matters worse; …
Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework, by Joseph Rothschild
Journal Article Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework, by Joseph Rothschild Get access Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework by Joseph Rothschild. New York, Columbia University Press, 1981. 290 pp. $22.50. Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 3, Fall 1982, Pages 563–564, https://doi.org/10.2307/215004…
Redevelopment, San Diego Style: The Limits of Public—Private Partnerships
Fiscally strapped local governments have increasingly turned to public—private partnerships (P3s) for redevelopment assistance, empowering private actors to exercise functions typically performed by the public sector. While P3s can enhance project funding and completion, they create the possibility of agency loss, that is, public means—tax dollars, public powers, and other resources—being diverted toward private purposes. Using a principal— agent…
Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociology, Erie examines a wide range of issues, including the relationship between city and state politics, the manner in which machines shaped ethnic and wo…
Politics, the Public Sector and Irish Social Mobility: San Francisco, 1870-1900
FROM the 1940s through the early 1960s several leading social scientists outlined a political' model of immigrant, primarily Irish, social mobility in late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban America. The most elaborate statement of the argument was made in Robert A. Dahl's 1961 analysis of New Haven politics, Who Governs? Its general contours, however, were evident in earlier work by William Foote Whyte (1943), Robert K. Merton (1949), …
The L.A. School and Politics Noir: Bringing the Local State Back In
This essay critically reevaluates two key components of the L.A. School of Urbanism research program. First, we reconsider the L.A. School’s alternative to the concentric circles model of urban growth developed by the Chicago School. Second, we reexamine its account of Los Angeles’s modern development and transformation into a global city. We conclude that the L.A. School, much like the Chicago School it critiques, pays insufficient attention to …
Fiscal Constraints and the Loss of Home Rule: The Long-Term Impacts of California’s Post-Proposition 13 Fiscal Regime
The passage of Proposition 13 in 1978 was a watershed event that ushered in both a new era and a new fiscal regime for California’s local governments. The authors argue that in the wake of follow-on initiatives, a protracted recessionary period, and the state’s use of newly authorized revenue-transfer powers, this still-evolving regime entered a new phase in the 1990s. This article analyzes the primary impacts of and responses to the changes in C…
Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
The Politics of Displacement: Racial and Ethnic Transition in Three American Cities, by Peter K. Eisinger
Southern California’s Crown Jewels: Historical Governance and Finance Lessons
This study offers an historical overview of how major public infrastructure projects were accomplished in the Los Angeles region in the absence of a formal regional general-purpose government. This study’s focus is on the governance and financing of Southern California’s “crown jewels”—water, port, and airport megaprojects crucial to the region’s improbable yet phenomenal 20th-century growth. Specifically, the authors (a) review scholarly debates…
Bringing the Bosses Back in: The Irish Political Machines and Urban Policy Making
Recently historians have ventured a multifaceted critique of boss rule, suggesting that the very existence of the political machine has been exaggerated, that machines did not materially affect patterns of political mobilization, had only a limited role in the making of public policy, and (contrary to pluralist theory) did little to improve the welfare of the ethnic working class. For these revisionists the boss was really a bit player in the era…
The Study of City Governance and Public Policy Making: A Critical Appraisal
M unicipalities have traditionally been assigned a large role in our federal system by politicians, administrators, and citizens alike.Today, however, the very worth of cities as appropriate governmental structures is severely challenged.Banfield, in The Unbeavenly City, argues that urban citizens are better off than they realize and that "do-gooder" efforts, including most current urban-oriented programs, often only serve to make matters worse; …
Politics, the Public Sector and Irish Social Mobility: San Francisco, 1870-1900
FROM the 1940s through the early 1960s several leading social scientists outlined a political' model of immigrant, primarily Irish, social mobility in late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban America. The most elaborate statement of the argument was made in Robert A. Dahl's 1961 analysis of New Haven politics, Who Governs? Its general contours, however, were evident in earlier work by William Foote Whyte (1943), Robert K. Merton (1949), …
Two Faces of Ethnic Power: Comparing the Irish & Black Experiences
Since the late 1960's the legend of the political success of Irish Americans and its implications for the distribution of public resources has been established as a model for black political and economic advancement. In order to assess the value of the Irish experience for present and future black strategies, Steven Erie here re-examines the Irish success story, separating myth from reality. He questions the effect of political mobilization on th…
The Politics of Displacement: Racial and Ethnic Transition in Three American Cities, by Peter K. Eisinger
Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework, by Joseph Rothschild
Journal Article Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework, by Joseph Rothschild Get access Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework by Joseph Rothschild. New York, Columbia University Press, 1981. 290 pp. $22.50. Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 3, Fall 1982, Pages 563–564, https://doi.org/10.2307/215004…
America's Ethnic Politics. Joseph S. Roucek , Bernard Eisenberg
The Pameters of Urban Fiscal Policy: Socioeconomic Change and Political Culture in San Francisco, 1860-1906. Terrence J. McDonald
Bringing the Bosses Back in: The Irish Political Machines and Urban Policy Making
Recently historians have ventured a multifaceted critique of boss rule, suggesting that the very existence of the political machine has been exaggerated, that machines did not materially affect patterns of political mobilization, had only a limited role in the making of public policy, and (contrary to pluralist theory) did little to improve the welfare of the ethnic working class. For these revisionists the boss was really a bit player in the era…
Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
How the Urban West was Won: The Local State and Economic Growth in Los Angeles, 1880-1932
The author examines early Los Angeles's transition from an essentially entrepreneurial growth regime (1880-1906) to a more state-centered growth regime (1906-1932). The analysis highlights the role of public infrastructure projects-water, power, and the harbor- and of powerful local bureaucracies, such as the Department of Water and Power, in shaping the region's Progressive Era development. Los Angeles's reliance upon a public strategy of econom…
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis
Journal Article City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis Get access City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis. New York, Verso Press, 1990. 462 pp. $24.95. Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 177–178, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Los Angeles Past Imperfect
Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991
To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City
From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines. Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and Puerto Rican migrants- on the Irish-dominated pol…
Fiscal Constraints and the Loss of Home Rule: The Long-Term Impacts of California’s Post-Proposition 13 Fiscal Regime
The passage of Proposition 13 in 1978 was a watershed event that ushered in both a new era and a new fiscal regime for California’s local governments. The authors argue that in the wake of follow-on initiatives, a protracted recessionary period, and the state’s use of newly authorized revenue-transfer powers, this still-evolving regime entered a new phase in the 1990s. This article analyzes the primary impacts of and responses to the changes in C…
Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938-1953
Journal Article Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953 Get access Los Angeles Transformed: Fletcher Bowron's Urban Reform Revival, 1938–1953. By Sitton Tom. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xvi + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $32.50.) Steven P. Erie Steven P. Erie University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Histor…
The L.A. School and Politics Noir: Bringing the Local State Back In
This essay critically reevaluates two key components of the L.A. School of Urbanism research program. First, we reconsider the L.A. School’s alternative to the concentric circles model of urban growth developed by the Chicago School. Second, we reexamine its account of Los Angeles’s modern development and transformation into a global city. We conclude that the L.A. School, much like the Chicago School it critiques, pays insufficient attention to …
Southern California’s Crown Jewels: Historical Governance and Finance Lessons
This study offers an historical overview of how major public infrastructure projects were accomplished in the Los Angeles region in the absence of a formal regional general-purpose government. This study’s focus is on the governance and financing of Southern California’s “crown jewels”—water, port, and airport megaprojects crucial to the region’s improbable yet phenomenal 20th-century growth. Specifically, the authors (a) review scholarly debates…
Redevelopment, San Diego Style: The Limits of Public—Private Partnerships
Fiscally strapped local governments have increasingly turned to public—private partnerships (P3s) for redevelopment assistance, empowering private actors to exercise functions typically performed by the public sector. While P3s can enhance project funding and completion, they create the possibility of agency loss, that is, public means—tax dollars, public powers, and other resources—being diverted toward private purposes. Using a principal— agent…
Machine Bosses, Reformers, and the Politics of Ethnic and Minority Incorporation
Throughout American history, political party organizations have served both as effective forces of political incorporation of newly arriving immigrants and as powerful barriers to fuller representation for minority groups. This chapter examines how urban political leaders and institutions have shaped the political emergence or suppression of ethnic groups from the Civil War era to the early twenty-first century. With particular focus on New York …
Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985
Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociology, Erie examines a wide range of issues, including the relationship between city and state politics, the manner in which machines shaped ethnic and wo…
Political science (19 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Irish and British Studies (5 works)