Power from the Margins
Grassroots Mobilization and Urban Expansions of Civil Legal Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Michener (0000-0002-7343-442X, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1390-1422 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087419855677 |
| OpenAlex | W2949824526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 57 |
Many scholars paint a somber picture of the political status of racially and economically marginalized groups in the United States. In particular, seminal studies on cities—places where race and class strikingly intersect—emphasize economic and political elites as primary drivers of urban politics, underscoring the disempowerment of those at the margins. This article offers a different, theoretically instructive perspective. Through a qualitative analysis of two major expansions of the legal right to counsel in civil courts, I describe political processes that afforded race–class subjugated communities pivotal influence over urban policy. I demonstrate how groups that many theories of political science do not expect to have substantive political influence, nonetheless profoundly shaped the course of urban policy development in the civil legal domain. I find an especially crucial role for membership-driven local organizations focused on building equitable community power
Grassroots · Political economy · Political mobilization · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Race (biology · Sociology · Urban politics · Gender Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies
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Withdrawing and Drawing In
No Justice, No Peace
Politics, power, and precarity
Race, power, and policy
Policing the police
Fundamentals of Solidarity
Planning for Homelessness
Court Watching’s Promise
State preemption and affordable housing policy
Housing movement coalitions in the United States
Critical Race Theories and the Political Economy of Systemic Racism
Cities Creating Citizens
Racism and Health
Strategies of Resistance in the Everyday
I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment
Draining the Swamp
Measuring Conflict in Local Politics
Protesting in a different way
The Politics of Personal Crisis
The interactive effects of policies
From the Margins to the Center
Rewiring Linked Fate
Legal Aid and Social Policy
Beyond fear of backlash
Policy Feedback & Research Methods
America's Uneven Democracy
Basic Interests
Representing the Advantaged
City and Regime in the American Republic
City Limits
The Unheavenly Chorus
Takeover
The Perils of Federalism
Racial Diversity, Voter Turnout, and Mobilizing Institutions in the United States
Whatever happened to qualitative description?
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
How Organizations Develop Activists
Political Organizations
On Democracy
Dry Bones Rattling
Segregation by Design
Affluence and Influence
Race, Poverty, and the Redistribution of Voting Rights
Political Inequality and State Policy Adoption
Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city
Advocacy Organizations in the U.S. Political Process
Whose Politics? Reflections on Clarence Stone’s Regime Politics
What Underlies Urban Politics? Race, Class, Ideology, Partisanship, and the Urban Vote
Pushing the City Limits
Where Turnout Matters
Voting Power, Policy Representation, and Disparities in Voting’s Rewards
Responsiveness in an Era of Inequality
Testing Theories of American Politics
The Enduring Indispensability of the Controlled Comparison
Representation and Accountability in Cities
Studying Organizational Advocacy and Influence
Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States
Theories of the Local Welfare Role
Who or What Governs
Income Inequality and Policy Representation in the American States
Paired Comparison and Theory Development
Comparison with an Ethnographic Sensibility
Police Are Our Government
Sand Castles Before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities
The Organizational Roots of Political Activism
Mobilizing Minority Communities
The Privatization of Political Representation
The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City's Housing Court
Legal Mobilization
How many cases do I need
Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class, and Gender Inequality
The City as a Growth Machine
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |