The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz

摘要

The title of this book suggests that it is just the story of politics in a unique community with little to tell us about power and politics more generally. But Leftmost City is much more than that, as might be surmised by the fact that G. William Domhoff, a leading writer and theorist of power in America for four decades, is coauthor.rnGendron and Domhoff open their book not with the specifics of politics in Santa Cruz, California, but with a discussion of four major theories of community power-Marxist urban theory, public choice theory, regime theory, and (their preference) growth coalition theory (based on Logan and Molotch 1987). Each is clearly explained, and later in the book, each is applied to the Santa Cruz case study.