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来源

URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,Vol.54,Issue1,P.74-106

语言

英文

关键字

urban politics; redistribution; partisanship; COUNCIL-MANAGER GOVERNMENT; POLICY; CITIES; CHOICE

作者单位

[Einstein, Katherine Levine; Glick, David M.] Boston Univ, Dept Polit Sci, 232 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215 USA. Einstein, KL (reprint author), Boston Univ, Dept Polit Sci, 232 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215 USA. E-Mail: kleinst@bu.edu

摘要

Policymakers and scholars are increasingly looking to cities to address challenges including income inequality. No existing research, however, directly and systematically measures local political elites' preferences for redistribution. We interview and survey 72 American mayorsincluding many from the nation's largest citiesand collect public statements and policy programs to measure when and why mayors prioritize redistribution. While many of the mayors' responses are consistent with being constrained by economic imperatives, a sizable minority prioritize redistributive programs. Moving beyond the question of whether mayors support redistribution, we find that partisanship explains much of the variation in a mayor's propensity for redistribution. Moreover, the impact of partisanship very rarely varies with institutional and economic contexts. These findings suggest that national political debates may be shaping local priorities in ways contrary to conventional views, and that they may matter even more than other recent findings conclude.