God from the Machine? Urban Movements Meet Machine Politics in Neoliberal Chicago

William Sites
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William Sites: School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, 969 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Environment and Planning A, 2012, vol. 44, issue 11, 2574-2590

Abstract: This paper examines the anti-Wal-Mart and immigrant rights movements in Chicago in order to understand how local political institutions influence dynamics of exclusion and incorporation. Tracing the post-1970s reconfiguration of the city's machine politics, I argue that a mayor-centered neoclientelism has enabled the local state to flexibly manage the political challenges posed by movements. This analysis seeks to contribute to broader conceptions of contemporary urban governance, suggesting how a ‘deviant’ set of local institutions may facilitate the sort of hybridized formations upon which a neoliberal politics relies.

Keywords: clientelism; urban politics; movements; neoliberalism; machine politics; ethnicity; Chicago (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1068/a44419

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