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Intro -- The Federal Government & Urban Housing -- Contents -- ILLUSTR ATIONS -- Introduction to the Third Edition -- 1. Power, Ideology, and Public Policy -- 2. The Ideological Framework for Housing Policy -- 3. Housing and Human Needs -- 4. Federal Housing Assistance from the Depression to the Moratorium:1934-1973 -- 5. New Directions in Housing Assistance:1973-1980 -- 6. The Federal Role in Community Development -- 7. Retrenchment and Recovery: Reagan and George H. W. Bush -- 8. Stagnation and P rogress:The Clinton Era -- 9. Housing in the Twenty-first Century -- R eferences -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

This book addresses the central question of how the interests of the poor gain representation in the political process by examining the interest group system.

This article explores the recent struggles of Northern Ireland to create a legitimate police force that is viewed as responsive to the needs of both the Catholic/nationalist community and the Protestant/unionist community. Three types of legitimacy are explored: democratic legitimacy through popular control, professional legitimacy of trained public officials, and legitimacy through responsive implementation. Based on 102 qualitative interviews with community leaders and key actors within the process of police governance and community relations conducted between 2007 and 2010, this article concludes that progress has been made in establishing all three types of legitimacy but that the remaining deep sectarian divisions within the society, combined with recent economic difficulties, present serious challenges to police/community partnerships that will enhance the legitimacy of the police.

This article explores the complex interactions between national citizenship and local citizenship in the divided city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, as they are emerging a decade after the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement was signed. Utilizing in-depth, qualitative interviews with citizens with varied community roles and perspectives, combined with a media survey, this article addresses the question of how local citizenship is evolving in Belfast and how the evolution of a shared local citizenship may ultimately affect national citizenship. The study of this unique case sheds light on the broader theoretical question of the relationship between local and national citizenship within a democratic polity.