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This work explores variation among cities through case studies and cross-sectional analyses. It synthesizes the field's seminal literature while explaining how urban leaders and their constituents grapple with everything from city council politics to conflict and cooperation among minority groups.

Just because Milwaukee isn't Manhattan, doesn't mean that those urban centers face completely unique challenges. Through effective comparative analysis of key issues in urban studies--how city managers share power with mayors, how spending policies affect economic development, and how school politics impact education policy--students can clearly see how scholars discern patterns and formulate conclusions to offer theoretical and practical insights from which all cities can benefit. Pelissero brings together an impressive team of contributors to explore variation among cities through case stu

The relative responsiveness of state aid to large cities for education & welfare programs is explored with residual measures of state aid. Analysis of official statistics demonstrates that large cities receive state aid funds that are largely determined by city needs & legal responsibilities for operating these programs. State targeting to needs is greatly improved in the allocation of education aid to cities in the mid-1970s from that observed in the pre-Ur crisis period. 1 Table, 10 References. HA

Factors influencing improved state responsiveness to urban education and welfare needs in the 1970s.

Dye and Hurley's (1978) conclusion that the states are somewhat more responsive to city needs than the federal government was questioned on methodological grounds by Ward (1981). The point of contention was Dye and Hurley's use of per capita measures of state/federal aid and urban needs. The research reported here examines state aid to the forty seven largest U.S. cities, and employs residual measures of state aid allocations before and during the urban crisis. Multiple regression of residual state aid on social, economic, or fiscal need indicators shows the states to have been very responsive to city needs over time, and lends substantial support to the findings of Dye and Hurley.