City Politics
City politics is a broad category of political study. Cities generally do not generate sufficient quantitative data for causal inference about them internally, so almost all study is comparative.
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, William L. Riordon, 1905
Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City, Robert Dahl, 1961
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America, William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub, 2007
City Diplomacy: From City-States to Global Cities, Raffaele Marchetti, 2021
Civil Service Adoption in America: The Political Influence of City Employees, Sarah F. Anzia and Jessica Trounstine, 2025