Takeover
Subtitle: race, education, and American democracy
By: Domingo Morel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780190678982; 9780190678975
Subjects: States; Central-local government relations; School districts; State governments; School management and organization; Local government; Education and state
Description: "State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. In most U.S. cities, local governments are responsible for decisions concerning matters such as the local water supply and school affairs. However, once a state takes over, this decision-making capability is shuttled. Despite the widespread attention that takeovers in Flint and Detroit have gained, we know little about how such takeovers -- a policy option that has been in use since the 1980s -- affect political power in local communities. This manuscript offers the first systematic study of state takeovers of local governments by focusing on takeovers of local school districts. The book examines the factors that contribute to state takeovers as well as the effects and political implications of takeovers on racialized communities, the communities most often affected by them. It challenges conventional wisdom that centralization and state takeovers unequivocally disempower racialized communities, laying out the conditions under which the policy will disempower or empower racial and ethnic minority populations. In addition, the book expands our understanding of urban politics. The book argues that state interventions are part of the new normal for cities and offers a novel theoretical framework for understanding the presence of the state in American cities. The book is built around an original study of nearly 1000 school districts, including every school district that has been taken over by their respective state, and a powerful case study of Newark, New Jersey"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: List of Tables; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Chapter 1: Schools, State, and Political Power; title: Chapter 2: A View From Two Cities: Newark, New Jersey and Central Falls, Rhode Island; title: Chapter 3: State Takeovers and Black and Latino Political Empowerment; title: Chapter 4: Why Take over?: State Centralization and the Conservative Education Logic; title: Chapter 5: The Implications of State Takeovers for Urban Politics: Cohesive and Disjointed State-Local Regimes; title: Chapter 6: Takeovers and American Democracy; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A: State Takeovers of Local School Districts and Mayoral Control; title: Appendix B: State Takeovers by State, School District, and Year of Takeover (1989-2013); title: Appendix C: Notes on Qualitative Data; title: Appendix D: Notes on Quantitative Data and Analysis.