The City as Polity & Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Hale (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-224 |
| Publication date | 1984-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234505 |
| OpenAlex | W2331677651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Once again, and for some time now, political science would seem to have been neglecting the study of urban politics. Economists are said to have moved in, and some of them are popularizing the notion that the city is a marketplace for the supply of services. Dennis Hale argues that this view is mistaken, for it misrepresents the reasons for which cities have historically come into being. It also obscures the fact that the city is preeminently a political community whose contribution to the wellbeing of its own people, and to that of the larger polity, is mainly political
Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2018 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |