If Civic Culture is the Answer, What is the Question?

Clarence N. Stone
Additional contact information
Clarence N. Stone: University of Maryland

Economic Development Quarterly, 2001, vol. 15, issue 4, 313-316

Abstract: Governing coalitions arise in response to recognized problems. They are mediating forces, not isolated universes operating only by an inner logic. The character of urban regimes concerns not only simply who makes up a governing coalition but also how the members are related to one another—the terms on which they cooperate and the resources they bring to bear. Regime analysis does not in itself explain the context from which members of a governing coalition come, but it provides a gateway to forms of explanation. With greater specificity about what civic culture is and what it explains, the concept of civic culture could help illuminate the local political context. However, at its current level of development, civic culture sheds little light on some key questions, such as those about political agency and how change occurs or about why economic development holds such a high place on the policy agenda of most localities.

Date: 2001
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/089124240101500403 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:15:y:2001:i:4:p:313-316

DOI: 10.1177/089124240101500403

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic Development Quarterly
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().