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The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier - Cities of the Prairie Revisited (Paperback)
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The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier - Cities of the Prairie Revisited (Paperback)
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The period from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s signaled the end
of the prosperity of the postwar years enjoyed by the cities of the
prairie-those cities located immediately within or adjacent to the
Mississippi River drainage system, or what is usually called the
American Heartland. During this period, the bottom dropped out of
local economies and all collapsed except those upheld by massive
state institutions. With this collapse, optimism for new
opportunities ended, signaling the close of the American frontier.
The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier looks at mid-sized cities
Champaign-Urbana, Decatur, Joliet, Moline, Peoria, Rockford, Rock
Island, and Springfield, Illinois; Davenport, Iowa; Duluth,
Minnesota; and Pueblo, Colorado. Elazar examines how they adapted
to change during the period immediately after World War II, through
the Vietnam War, and the Nixon years. He considers the roles of
federal and state governments as instruments of change including
their efforts to impose new standards and ways of doing business.
The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier analyzes the struggle
between federalism and managerialism in the local political arena.
In his new introduction, Daniel J. Elazar discusses this volume's
place as part of a forty-year study of the cities of the prairie as
well as the changes and developments in that region over that
forty-year span. This volume will be of great interest to
economists, political scientists, and sociologists interested in
the Great Society and the New Federalism and their aftermath.
Daniel J. Elazar (1934-1999) was president of the Jerusalem Center
for Public Affairs, and professor of political science and director
of the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University. He
authored many books including the four-volume series The Covenant
Tradition in Politics, available from Transaction.
Rozann Rothman is director of the applied politics program at
Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. Stephen L.
Schecter and Maura Allan Stein are associate professors of
political science at Russell Sage College. Joseph Zikmund II is
dean of the School of Letters and Sciences at Menlo College.
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