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Harm, Moralism, and the Struggle for the Soul of Feminism
Authors: BRUSH LISA D.
Published: March 2007

Contemporary feminist strategies to stop violence against women have revealed a profound conflict of interest among women. Feminists have mobilized moral outrage, built institutions to protect and nurture women, and demanded resources for policing and healing by drawing attention to the harms caused by violence against women. However, many women, especially young, heterosexual women, are alienated by a discourse of victimization that reflects neither their experiences nor their interests. They have developed a critique of contemporary feminism and its focus on violence against women. In this critique, accusations of moralism are used to paper over differences among women and thus obscure key questions of privilege and vulnerability. One theoretically and politically sustainable response is for feminists to combat the false dichotomization of economics and violence that characterizes the critique. I provide an example by analyzing violence against women in the context of welfare reform.
The Electoral Impact of Partisanship and Incumbency Reconsidered
Authors: Pohlmann Marcus D.
Published: March 2007

Analyses of recent Presidential, Congressional, and Gubernatorial elections and elec torates have given rise to conclusions that traditional party loyalties are waning, while an incumbent, regardless of party affiliation, remains extremely difficult to unseat. How ever, analysis of "lower salience" New York City choices (such as for City Council, State Assembly, and State Senate) indicates that although incumbents run even stronger on this level, "electorate partisanship" has not been seriously eroded. The data consist of aggregate registration and voting information from a period (1968-1974) in which par tisanship was seen to be losing its impact as a voting cue in high salience races nation wide. The author finds that when one focuses on registration and straight-ticket voting at the bottom of the New York City ballot, one finds few "operational Independents." The specific findings are: (a) nearly 90% partisan registration, with no significant upsurge in Independent enlistments; (b) a sizable amount of partisan straight-ticket voting-in these lower salience contests; and (c) "switching" appears to be considerably more a high than a low salience election phenomenon.
The Politics of Economics in Transit Planning
Authors: Haines Richard L.
Published: March 2007

Urban transportation planning is discussed as an object lesson demonstrating both the limits of economic reasoning as a guide to public policy, and the degree to which profes sional planners can conventionalize subjective judgments which are then insinuated into policy advice under the guise of hard-nosed realism. The implication is that our choice from among professional experts is intrinsically a political one.
Community Mobilization Against Urban Crime
Authors: Williams A. Kevin
Published: March 2007

Periodically, crime becomes a prominent issue in the politics of cities. In the past, politicians, police officials, and the media elevated crime to public and political agenda status for their own purposes. Increasingly, however, grassroots activists are raising crime as an issue and are organizing to cope with it in their communities. The type and posture of these organizations differ significantly. The postures that anticrime activists adopt are largely decided by their perspectives toward (1) the legitimacy of governmental authority and (2) their sense of efficacy. These guiding orientations lead activists to fall into four basic categories that are labeled Negotiational, Adversarial, Delegational, and Alienated.
Gay and Lesbian Political Mobilization and Regime Responsiveness in Four New York Cities
Authors: Rosenthal Donald B.
Published: March 2007

The increasing participation of lesbians and gay men in municipal politics is a product of the convergence of several processes: the creation of a movement among individuals, most of whom previously accepted collective invisibility; the mobilization of political resources by members of the community; and the opening of opportunities for participation by local political regimes. Here, the author examines how gay and lesbian community-building and political-mobilization processes in four New York cities (Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse) meshed with opportunities provided by local political regimes to encourage a greater voice for lesbians and gay men in municipal politics.
Recent Research on Racial Segregation and Poverty Concentration in Public Housing in the United States
Authors: Goering John , Kamely Ali , Richardson Todd
Published: March 2007

Newly available data reveal that despite a recent decline in public sector housing segregation, the majority of black American public housing residents live in poor, racially isolated neighborhoods and white tenants typically live in less isolated neighborhoods. These patterns are influenced by overall residential segregation and public housing authority characteristics.
Neighborhood Organizations, the Welfare State, and Citizenship Rights
Authors: Hasson Shlomo , Ley David
Published: March 2007

Using case studies of neighborhood organizations in Canada and Israel, the authors consider relations between neighborhood organizations, the welfare state, and citizenship rights during the twentieth century. These welfare states display real differences but also enough instructive similarities to illuminate the robustness of their argument. Following a theoretical discussion, they identify, primarily on the basis of ethnographic study, five regimes that have produced a distinctive conjuncture of types of organizations, forms of the welfare state, and outcomes in terms of citizenship rights. With qualifications, they find the coproduction, or partnership, model most promising in securing citizenship rights and urban governability.
The Global Meets the Local
Authors: Thorns David C.
Published: March 2007

From the 1970s through the 1990s, rapid change has transpired within New Zealand. Accompanying the restructuring that has occurred has been a search for new economic opportunities for the cities. One avenue has been provided by tourism. The stimulus of international tourism, in particular, has resulted in the redevelopment of cities along new lines designed to capture an increasing proportion of this new form of economic activity. The author explores the dimensions of these urban changes through case studies of three New Zealand cities: Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
Exploring the Effects of Single-Member Districts on an Urban Political System
Authors: Haeberle Steven H.
Published: March 2007

The decision in Yarbrough et al. v. City of Birmingham in 1989 resulted in Birmingham, Alabama, changing its nine-member city council from at-large to district elections to preserve minority (white) representation. Implementation of this court order produced the descriptive representation it was designed to attain but did not improve citizen perceptions of the quality of representation. It produced other changes in the conduct of city politics. Council candidates altered their campaign strategies to make themselves appear more sensitive to district-level concerns. Districts do not yet seem to have stimulated either turnout or greater competition in council elections.
City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution
Authors: Eisinger Peter
Published: March 2007

The author reports on the current status of cities in the devolving federal system and the resulting implications for city politics. In particular, he examines the strength of the fiscal link between the federal government and municipal governments and the implications of growing interest in federal devolution for city government. He concludes by arguing that growing local fiscal and administrative self-reliance create pressures on local politicians to focus on public management skills rather than on the pursuit of social and racial agendas that were the focus two decades ago. The result is a deep change in the moral tenor of city politics.
Old Wine, Cracked Bottle?
Authors: White James W.
Published: March 2007

The theoretical model of the global city, an international metropolis in which form and functioning are predominantly determined by the forces of international capital and in which socioeconomic structure is characterized by class and ethnic polarization, is criticized as economically reductionist and ethnocentric. Paris and Tokyo are offered as empirical examples of international metropolises that are not dominated by capital and/or are not characterized by extreme polarization.
Beyond the Region
Authors: Indergaard Michael
Published: March 2007

Does economic restructuring provide opportunities for remaking old industrial centers into regional industrial systems? Such regions possess institutions that allow firms and support organizations to adjust to market shifts. The case of Detroit's Downriver suburbs is used to explore this question in a metropolitan setting. Downriver regionalism supported several market interventions, showing that restructuring can create opportunities for economic regionalism. However, regionalism did not produce industrial adjustment mechanisms and eventually succumbed to interlocal competition for investment. The author concludes that prospects for regional systems are diminished by metropolitan fragmentation and national policies promoting capital mobility as the primary mechanism for economic adjustment.
Busing, "White Flight," and the Role of Developers in the Continuous Suburbanization of Franklin County, Ohio
Authors: Jonas Andrew E. G.
Published: March 2007

This study explores the conflicts surrounding school desegregation in Franklin County, Ohio, and how they have been resolved in a way that has facilitated a continuation of suburban residential development despite ongoing resistance to growth from local residents. One condition that has proven important in this case is the existence of developable areas within the city of Columbus that are in suburban school districts."White flight" from the desegregating Columbus School District mainly has been confined to these areas, provoking resistance from existing residents and calls for impact fees, calls that have been opposed by developer interests. The author discusses the ways in which developer interests have exploited the intense jurisdictional fragmentation of the metropolitan area to overcome obstacles to further residential development in suburban areas.
Nursing Roles for Chronic Pain Management in the Seriously Mentally Ill
Authors: Pavalonis Diane , DeCarr Michele , Shutty Michael S.
Published: March 2007

In this article, a comprehensive pain management program on an inpatient psychiat ric unit is described. Traditional pain management methods of patient education and active participation in rehabilitation are modified to be efficacious with a seriously mentally ill patient population. Specific assessment, planning implementation, and evaluation strategies for pain management in the mentally ill are outlined. To illus trate the pain program, a case study of a female psychiatric patient with a nursing diagnosis of "pain behavior, in excess of injury, related to ineffective coping skills and secondary gains" is used. Frequency of observed pain behavior and ambulation efficiency all showed a marked decrease during the month-long treatment plan. (JAM PSYCHIATR NURSES Assoc [1995], 1, 107-111)
Congress and the Internet
Authors: Owen Diana , Davis Richard , Strickler Vincent James
Published: March 2007

Information technologies have permeated society and political life. Congress also has been incorporating these new technologies as members have established their own Web sites and acquired e-mail addresses. Using a survey of congressional offices and a content analysis of congressional Web sites, we describe how Congress as an institution uses the Internet to disseminate information to the public and how individual members of Congress use the Internet and e-mail to interact with constituents. We conclude that congressional response to these technologies has been mixed and that, to the extent that members have embraced the new technologies, they have done so not to facilitate interactivity with constituents, but primarily as an extension of their strategies of advertising themselves to constituents.
Universal Relations for Transversely Isotropic Elastic Materials
Authors: Batra R. C.
Published: March 2007

We adopt Hayes and Knops’s approach and derive universal relations for finite deformations of a transversely isotropic elastic material. Explicit universal relations are obtained for homogeneous deformations corresponding to triaxial stretches, simple shear, and simultaneous shear and extension. Universal relations are also derived for five families of nonhomogeneous deformations.