Urban Redevelopment and the Structure of Power: The Impact of Private Interests on the Policy-Making Process in Columbus, Ohio.

摘要

The problem of the study was to analyze and explain the decision-making process and its impact in a medium-sized American city. Significant considerations were to (1) describe and understand decision-making dynamics in a community by focusing on (a) both individuals and groups in terms of their relative importance to each other as concerns bargaining and negotiations, and (b) the dynamics of internal and external interaction in terms of where it occurred, the resources used, and coalition formation; (2) analyze the behavior of major actors as associated with where their major interest lie along observable and subtle dimensions; (3) identify the conditions of different kinds of outcomes in terms of whose interests are served most and whose interests were served least; and (4) comment on the validity of relevant propositions and hypotheses drawn from the urban politics and policy literature. Essentially, the aims were to examine the New Redevelopment Phase as a response to community problems and assess the validity and usefulness of pluralism as a policy-making theory.