"Power brokers and citizens alike would do well to read this
book."--San Francisco Examiner"San Francisco has been labeled the
capital of the progressive movement in the U.S., and DeLeon
examines this evolution in a well-written and thoroughly documented
account of the city's transition from a community promoting
physical development to one which now endorses human
development."--Choice"DeLeon has a gift for storytelling. He takes
readers on a fascinating tour of San Francisco's political world,
from the idealistic administration of Mayor George Moscone to the
downtown boom years of Dianne Feinstein's 10-year mayoral tenure,
to the triumph and subsequent downfall of slow-growth candidate Art
Agnos."--San Francisco Daily Journal"This keen study roughs out the
contours and illuminates the shadows of The City's political
terrain between 1975 and 1991 to help solve the
how-did-we-get-here-and-who-got-us-here? puzzle."--San Francisco
Magazine
"An outstanding case study of big city electoral politics that
perceptively analyzes the nuts and bolts of constructing a
progressive governing coalition and illuminates the dynamics and
contradictions of contemporary urban liberalism."--John Mollenkopf,
author of The Contested City and A Phoenix in the Ashes"First-rate.
It's a winner. DeLeon is a skillful writer. His work is clear and
uncluttered by jargon. At the same time, he displays a remarkable
ability to integrate seemingly diverse theoretical strands. . . .
His analysis of coalition politics and of the referendum process
shows him to be a master of the regime concept and to be acutely
aware of the tensions within populist alliances. He sees the
business community as composed of diverse sectors, not as a
monolith. And he puts the mobility of capital into perspective,
acknowledging its importance but showing its limits as
well-particularly in an advantaged location of the kind San
Francisco enjoys. This is a very sophisticated work."--Clarence
Stone, author of Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta,
1946-1988"DeLeon treats the process of regime formation as an open
and contingent historical process--as it should be treated. He
writes in a clear and lucid style. This book is a significant
contribution to the literature on urban politics. Its audience will
extend well beyond political scientists, encompassing urban
sociologists, historians, geographers, political economists, and
planners."--Michael Peter Smith, author of City, State, and Market:
The Political Economy of Urban Society
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