Power in the City: Decision Making in San Francisco

by Frederick M. Wirt

Book Overview

San Francisco is a uniquely favored city, but its politics are beset with extraordinary problems. Power is divided among traditional and new minorities, a mayor with modest authority, and a large city bureaucracy guided by insensitive professional norms. The special San Francisco "politics of profit" and ethnic conflict are complicated and profoundly influenced by such external forces as regional, state, and federal government, and by the force of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520358406
• ISBN13: 9780520358409
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"