Paul Kantor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Kantor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Kantor |
| SIGNATURE | KANTOR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The End of American Urban Policy—Or a Beginning
This evaluation of American urban policy considers future directions during the twenty-first century. It concludes that it is no longer fruitful to treat cities and other urban places as special interests with special problems to successfully address urban inequalities. The most critical forces now shaping urban America overwhelmingly are found beyond it. Future policies should concentrate on making the whole intergovernmental environment more ju…
The Two Faces of American Urban Policy
This article reviews and reconceptualizes America’s urban policy to highlight enduring sources of stability and change. It suggests that U.S. urban policy has two faces, one social and the other developmental. Both are built upon different political pillars. Each follows a different political logic. They are projections of powerful interests routinely playing very different political games. Consequently, this dual reality profoundly shapes the pr…
City futures: Politics, economic crisis, and the American model of urban development
Looking to the future, this essay examines the likely trajectory of the American model of urban development in the face of world-wide economic crisis and major political re-alignment in the United States. It highlights how deeply suspicious many Americans are about concentrating power, even in the face of big sacrifices to social equality and threat of economic crisis. The US model shows how global capitalism does not drive urban change, even in …
The Coherence of Disorder: A Realist Approach to the Politics of City Regions
Although study of political cooperation has yielded valuable insights about city region governance, this approach achieves less understanding of its actual practice. Viewing it mainly as a struggle to achieve political cooperation neglects how local governments sometimes find other ways of pulling together. A realist perspective uncovers how local governments pursue collective action despite limited political cooperation. Taking cues from theorie…
Intelligence and Security Informatics: First European Conference, EuroISI 2008, Esbjerg, Denmark, December 3-5, 2008. Proceedings
Varieties of city regionalism and the quest for political cooperation: A comparative perspective
Urban theorists forecast greater political cooperation within city regions in response to globalization, yet signs of this remain relatively scant in Western Europe and North America. This article helps to explain the gap between theory and reality, as well as suggesting another way of looking at the comparative politics of city regions. The central argument: theorists are correct about the renewed importance of regional politics, but wrong about…
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages by Saskia Sassen
Journal Article Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages by Saskia Sassen Get access Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblagesby Saskia Sassen. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2006. 502pp. $35.00. Paul Kantor Paul Kantor Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 186–188,…
Regionalism and Reform: A Comparative Perspective on Dutch Urban Politics
Advocates of regional political cooperation find favor with political theorists while encountering widespread rejection by real-world governments. Why do practitioners often fail to follow the reformers? Employing a comparative perspective, this analysis examines theories of regional reform and then surveys metropolitan political cooperation within a context that theorists expect should be highly supportive of it—Randstad Holland and the Amsterda…
How to Study Comparative Urban Development Politics: A Research Note
Urban Strategies for a Global Era: A Cross-National Comparison
This article is based on a study of 10 cities in Western Europe and North America over a 30-year period. Based on detailed case studies, the authors identify four strategies of development: (a) growth strategies, (b) community development initiatives, (c) regionalism, and (d) national urban policy. The first of these strategies focuses on promoting economic growth, albeit sometimes "slow" or "smart" growth. The other three strategies focus on res…
Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe
267 Chapter Nine: Strategies for the International Marketplace 313 Chapter Ten: Conclusions: Cities Need Not Be Leaves in the Wind 346 Appendix: Sources and Notes for Figures and Tables 361 Source Notes 373 Glossary 391 Bibliography 395 Index 425
Terrorism and Governability in New York City: Old Problem, New Dilemma
New York City’s experience suggests that the hand of terrorism is profoundly changing urban politics. The events of 9/11 struck a city that was already seriously off balance due to long building sources of political fragmentation and exclusion that obstruct political leadership, making it difficult to overcome festering social divisions or steer the city in new directions. Despite Mayor Giuliani’s image of control during the weeksof emergency, de…
The Local Polity as a Pathway for Public Power: Taming the Business Tiger during New York City's Industrial Age
This article explores how bargaining advantages arising from the process of public-private coordination of interests enable local government to contain business influence in urban development. A theoretical framework highlights how the scope of business demands and the impact of policy on political coalitions empower local officials as Brokers, Organizers, Entrepreneurs and Promoters. Each role affords different pathways for state power in compet…
American Political Parties: Decline or Resurgence?
Powerful cross-currents of both decline and resurgence have been affecting political parties over the past several decades. Is the era of decline that began in the late 1960s over and are the parties in a new era of rebuilding? And in what direction are the parties headed and what does it mean for a healthy and well-functioning democracy? American Political Parties brings together a distinguished team of contributors to explore these questions. S…
Can Regionalism Save Poor Cities: Politics, Institutions, and Interests in Glasgow
Regional governmental intervention is frequently advocated as a solution to the problems of poor cities. The regional reform model is examined in light of Glasgow’s experience. It suggests that this approach became a trap for Glasgow and contributed to the city’s spiral of decline. The findings indicate that the reform model is seriously flawed by economic determinism and ignores regional political dynamics. In particular, it conflates abstract n…
The Political Economy of Urban Regimes: A Comparative Perspective
The authors suggest how regime politics is influenced in systematic ways by particular kinds of bargaining environments. They describe a theoretical framework designed to examine the interplay of local democratic development, market environments, and intergovernmental networks on regime dynamics in eight cities in Western Europe and the United States since the 1970s. The authors explain how structural forces influence critical aspects of local re…
The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy Of Urban Development And Social Policy
Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness, tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have …
Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland and Chicago, by Kenneth Finegold
Journal Article Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland and Chicago, by Kenneth Finegold Get access Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland and Chicago by Kenneth Finegold. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. 264 pp. $39.50. Paul Kantor Paul Kantor Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Poli…
City Business: An International Perspective On Marketplace Politics
Can Politicians Bargain with Business: A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective on Urban Development
These authors examine the capability of local government to influence economic development by formulating a framework that treats state-business relations as a bargaining process. This framework suggests that governmental influence is tied to the distribution of bargaining advantages along three dimensions of a liberal-democratic political economy: market conditions, popular-control systems, and public-intervention mechanisms. The authors offer a…
The Dual City as Political Choice
This paper examines the proposition that the dual social character of urban America is mostly a product of US political choices during this century. In responding to the emerging imperatives of economic restructuring and racial transformation, federal, state, and local officials pursued a Jeffersonian notion of urban politics. The author argues that this response has diminished the nation’s political capability for achieving community-building so…
Dual City: Restructuring New York, by John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells
A Case for a National Urban Policy: The Governmnentalization of Economic Dependency
Growth of the federal urban presence has not occurred as expected: National economic development programs have increased urban and regional economic rivalry; national redistributive programs usually have failed to check the political consequences of this constraint in local welfare politics. In effect, federal urban policy has govemmentalized the pressures in the urban economy that discourage local government activism in aiding the disadvantaged.…
The Political Economy of Business Politics in U.S. Cities: A Developmental Perspective
Although the political presence of business in the economic development of American cities has been richly documented, there has been much less attention to how and why urban business politics has changed in the course of our history. Indeed, the political circumstances and problems of the early Republic's merchant entrepreneurs in the towns seem remote from those of urban business leaders of postindustrial America, with its giant cities and mega…
The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation, by Charles Green and Basil Wilson
Journal Article The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation, by Charles Green and Basil Wilson Get access The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation by Charles Green and Basil Wilson. New York, Praeger, 1989. 183 pp. $39.95. Paul Kantor Paul Kantor Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science …
The Political Economy of Urban Regimes: A Comparative Perspective
The authors suggest how regime politics is influenced in systematic ways by particular kinds of bargaining environments. They describe a theoretical framework designed to examine the interplay of local democratic development, market environments, and intergovernmental networks on regime dynamics in eight cities in Western Europe and the United States since the 1970s. The authors explain how structural forces influence critical aspects of local re…
Dual City: Restructuring New York, by John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells
How to Study Comparative Urban Development Politics: A Research Note
Regionalism and Reform: A Comparative Perspective on Dutch Urban Politics
Advocates of regional political cooperation find favor with political theorists while encountering widespread rejection by real-world governments. Why do practitioners often fail to follow the reformers? Employing a comparative perspective, this analysis examines theories of regional reform and then surveys metropolitan political cooperation within a context that theorists expect should be highly supportive of it—Randstad Holland and the Amsterda…
Urban Strategies for a Global Era: A Cross-National Comparison
This article is based on a study of 10 cities in Western Europe and North America over a 30-year period. Based on detailed case studies, the authors identify four strategies of development: (a) growth strategies, (b) community development initiatives, (c) regionalism, and (d) national urban policy. The first of these strategies focuses on promoting economic growth, albeit sometimes "slow" or "smart" growth. The other three strategies focus on res…
Can Regionalism Save Poor Cities: Politics, Institutions, and Interests in Glasgow
Regional governmental intervention is frequently advocated as a solution to the problems of poor cities. The regional reform model is examined in light of Glasgow’s experience. It suggests that this approach became a trap for Glasgow and contributed to the city’s spiral of decline. The findings indicate that the reform model is seriously flawed by economic determinism and ignores regional political dynamics. In particular, it conflates abstract n…
The End of American Urban Policy—Or a Beginning
This evaluation of American urban policy considers future directions during the twenty-first century. It concludes that it is no longer fruitful to treat cities and other urban places as special interests with special problems to successfully address urban inequalities. The most critical forces now shaping urban America overwhelmingly are found beyond it. Future policies should concentrate on making the whole intergovernmental environment more ju…
The Coherence of Disorder: A Realist Approach to the Politics of City Regions
Although study of political cooperation has yielded valuable insights about city region governance, this approach achieves less understanding of its actual practice. Viewing it mainly as a struggle to achieve political cooperation neglects how local governments sometimes find other ways of pulling together. A realist perspective uncovers how local governments pursue collective action despite limited political cooperation. Taking cues from theorie…
Urban Policy in the Federal System: A Reconceptualization of Federalism
We do not, yet, have a perspective on federalism that takes account of the substantive policy consequences of the systemic biases imposed by the political economy of our intergovernmental order. Professors David and Kantor propose to focus on the economic and political context in which policy issues are settled. Their approach, they suggest, would reveal stable systemic interests that govern choice, and it would show that cooperation between the …
City Business: An International Perspective On Marketplace Politics
Terrorism and Governability in New York City: Old Problem, New Dilemma
New York City’s experience suggests that the hand of terrorism is profoundly changing urban politics. The events of 9/11 struck a city that was already seriously off balance due to long building sources of political fragmentation and exclusion that obstruct political leadership, making it difficult to overcome festering social divisions or steer the city in new directions. Despite Mayor Giuliani’s image of control during the weeksof emergency, de…
The Governable City: Islands of Power & Political Parties in London
V.O. Key and a host of American political scientists have argued that competing party organizations contribute to responsible political leadership. Absent responsible parties, control fragments and interest group organizations and bureaucrats exercise power, each in a policy-area island, without accountability to the public. Kantor summarizes the argument, then explores the British experience of disciplined local party programs in the context of …
The Two Faces of American Urban Policy
This article reviews and reconceptualizes America’s urban policy to highlight enduring sources of stability and change. It suggests that U.S. urban policy has two faces, one social and the other developmental. Both are built upon different political pillars. Each follows a different political logic. They are projections of powerful interests routinely playing very different political games. Consequently, this dual reality profoundly shapes the pr…
The Local Polity as a Pathway for Public Power: Taming the Business Tiger during New York City's Industrial Age
This article explores how bargaining advantages arising from the process of public-private coordination of interests enable local government to contain business influence in urban development. A theoretical framework highlights how the scope of business demands and the impact of policy on political coalitions empower local officials as Brokers, Organizers, Entrepreneurs and Promoters. Each role affords different pathways for state power in compet…
The Political Economy of Change in Urban Budgetary Politics: A Framework for Analysis and a Case Study
Few events shatter confidence in widely held theory more than failure to predict colossal changes. Just such an instance has occurred in the budgetary politics of American cities. City budgeting can no longer be accurately described in terms of an incremental model that assumes stability, routine decisions and marginal adjustments in public spending and taxation. More than a decade of dramatic and largely unanticipated change – fiscal crises, ill…
Political Parties and Citizen Participation in English City Politics
Political parties have come to play a critical role in contemporary theories of democracy. In order to achieve a system where voters regularly influence the authoritative actions of policymakers, it is said that the system of recruitment to political office must be organized so that stable competition between organized political factions occurs. V.O. Key, whose careful analysis of Southern Politics convinced him of the evils that thrived where po…
Elites, Pluralists and Policy Arenas in London: Toward a Comparative Theory of City Policy Formation
Theories of policy formation derived from the experience of one country are not always easy to apply in another. This is particularly true of policy making in British cities, where scholars have often found that the relevance of theories developed in the United States is strictly limited. This paper seeks to explore two approaches that have been influential in orienting theory-building in American local politics – the ‘elite’ approach and the ‘pl…
The Dual City as Political Choice
This paper examines the proposition that the dual social character of urban America is mostly a product of US political choices during this century. In responding to the emerging imperatives of economic restructuring and racial transformation, federal, state, and local officials pursued a Jeffersonian notion of urban politics. The author argues that this response has diminished the nation’s political capability for achieving community-building so…
The Political Economy of Business Politics in U.S. Cities: A Developmental Perspective
Although the political presence of business in the economic development of American cities has been richly documented, there has been much less attention to how and why urban business politics has changed in the course of our history. Indeed, the political circumstances and problems of the early Republic's merchant entrepreneurs in the towns seem remote from those of urban business leaders of postindustrial America, with its giant cities and mega…
City and Regime in the American Republic
The Governable City: Islands of Power & Political Parties in London
V.O. Key and a host of American political scientists have argued that competing party organizations contribute to responsible political leadership. Absent responsible parties, control fragments and interest group organizations and bureaucrats exercise power, each in a policy-area island, without accountability to the public. Kantor summarizes the argument, then explores the British experience of disciplined local party programs in the context of …
Elites, Pluralists and Policy Arenas in London: Toward a Comparative Theory of City Policy Formation
Theories of policy formation derived from the experience of one country are not always easy to apply in another. This is particularly true of policy making in British cities, where scholars have often found that the relevance of theories developed in the United States is strictly limited. This paper seeks to explore two approaches that have been influential in orienting theory-building in American local politics – the ‘elite’ approach and the ‘pl…
Political Parties and Citizen Participation in English City Politics
Political parties have come to play a critical role in contemporary theories of democracy. In order to achieve a system where voters regularly influence the authoritative actions of policymakers, it is said that the system of recruitment to political office must be organized so that stable competition between organized political factions occurs. V.O. Key, whose careful analysis of Southern Politics convinced him of the evils that thrived where po…
New York: State and City, by David Maldwyn Ellis
Economics
Economics
United States
Urban Policy in the Federal System: A Reconceptualization of Federalism
We do not, yet, have a perspective on federalism that takes account of the substantive policy consequences of the systemic biases imposed by the political economy of our intergovernmental order. Professors David and Kantor propose to focus on the economic and political context in which policy issues are settled. Their approach, they suggest, would reveal stable systemic interests that govern choice, and it would show that cooperation between the …
The Political Economy of Change in Urban Budgetary Politics: A Framework for Analysis and a Case Study
Few events shatter confidence in widely held theory more than failure to predict colossal changes. Just such an instance has occurred in the budgetary politics of American cities. City budgeting can no longer be accurately described in terms of an incremental model that assumes stability, routine decisions and marginal adjustments in public spending and taxation. More than a decade of dramatic and largely unanticipated change – fiscal crises, ill…
United States
DNA repair maintains genomic stability and the loss of DNA repair capacity results in genetic instability that may lead to a decline of cellular function. Adult stem cells are extremely important in the long-term maintenance of tissues throughout life. They regenerate and renew tissues in response to damage and replace senescent terminally differentiated cells that no longer function. Oxidative stress, toxic byproducts, reduced mitochondrial func…
Across the River: Politics and Education in the City. Joseph P. Viteritti
The Dependent City: The Changing Political Economy of Urban Economic Development in the United States
Placed within a larger politico-economic order, city governments are captives of many slowly changing forces that shape and limit community choices. This article seeks to conceptualize some of these dependency relationships and evaluate their historic impact on the politics of urban economic development. The central argument is that the major components of the liberal-democratic political economy have interacted during American history to precipi…
Sociology
City and Regime in the American Republic
The Political Economy of Business Politics in U.S. Cities: A Developmental Perspective
Although the political presence of business in the economic development of American cities has been richly documented, there has been much less attention to how and why urban business politics has changed in the course of our history. Indeed, the political circumstances and problems of the early Republic's merchant entrepreneurs in the towns seem remote from those of urban business leaders of postindustrial America, with its giant cities and mega…
The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation, by Charles Green and Basil Wilson
Journal Article The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation, by Charles Green and Basil Wilson Get access The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation by Charles Green and Basil Wilson. New York, Praeger, 1989. 183 pp. $39.95. Paul Kantor Paul Kantor Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science …
A Case for a National Urban Policy: The Governmnentalization of Economic Dependency
Growth of the federal urban presence has not occurred as expected: National economic development programs have increased urban and regional economic rivalry; national redistributive programs usually have failed to check the political consequences of this constraint in local welfare politics. In effect, federal urban policy has govemmentalized the pressures in the urban economy that discourage local government activism in aiding the disadvantaged.…
Dual City: Restructuring New York, by John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells
Can Politicians Bargain with Business: A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective on Urban Development
These authors examine the capability of local government to influence economic development by formulating a framework that treats state-business relations as a bargaining process. This framework suggests that governmental influence is tied to the distribution of bargaining advantages along three dimensions of a liberal-democratic political economy: market conditions, popular-control systems, and public-intervention mechanisms. The authors offer a…
The Dual City as Political Choice
This paper examines the proposition that the dual social character of urban America is mostly a product of US political choices during this century. In responding to the emerging imperatives of economic restructuring and racial transformation, federal, state, and local officials pursued a Jeffersonian notion of urban politics. The author argues that this response has diminished the nation’s political capability for achieving community-building so…
The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy Of Urban Development And Social Policy
Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness, tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have …
Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland and Chicago, by Kenneth Finegold
Journal Article Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland and Chicago, by Kenneth Finegold Get access Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland and Chicago by Kenneth Finegold. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. 264 pp. $39.50. Paul Kantor Paul Kantor Fordham University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Poli…
City Business: An International Perspective On Marketplace Politics
The Political Economy of Urban Regimes: A Comparative Perspective
The authors suggest how regime politics is influenced in systematic ways by particular kinds of bargaining environments. They describe a theoretical framework designed to examine the interplay of local democratic development, market environments, and intergovernmental networks on regime dynamics in eight cities in Western Europe and the United States since the 1970s. The authors explain how structural forces influence critical aspects of local re…
Can Regionalism Save Poor Cities: Politics, Institutions, and Interests in Glasgow
Regional governmental intervention is frequently advocated as a solution to the problems of poor cities. The regional reform model is examined in light of Glasgow’s experience. It suggests that this approach became a trap for Glasgow and contributed to the city’s spiral of decline. The findings indicate that the reform model is seriously flawed by economic determinism and ignores regional political dynamics. In particular, it conflates abstract n…
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