Group Involvements in City Politics and Pluralist Theory
Issue Date
2013-03Author
Schumaker, Paul
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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The assessments of 75 councilors and mayors in eight cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area provide global measures of group organization, activity, and influence in community politics and measures of their specific involvements in 73 issues that arose in these communities. While variations in group involvement and influence—both in exercising social control and contributing to social production—are reported, the most general findings are that groups are less involved in city politics and their limited involvements are less conflictive than suggested by orthodox understandings of pluralist theory. I argue that these results point to the need to reformulate pluralist theory, not abandon it.
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Schumaker, P. (2013), Group Involvements in City Politics and
Pluralist Theory Urban Affairs Review March 2013 vol. 49 no. 2 254-
281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087412473068
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