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An examination of the relationship between riot incidence & changes in Ur expenditures & revenue, using 310 US cities of over 50,000 population as a data base. Cities were analyzed in terms of: (1) changes in expenditures considered relevant to the demands of blacks & whites, (2) four fiscal areas thought largely unrelated to either black or white demands, & (3) occurrence or nonoccurrence of riots. Results revealed greater increments in expenditures related to black & white demands in cities having riots as compared with those that did not, but the same difference did not appear in the other four expenditure areas. When structural variables were controlled, differences in police & fire expenditure increments remained, while differences in social welfare benefits were greatly reduced. This pattern of difference between riot & nonriot cities was not found to hold prior to 1965. Comparisons in expenditure gains were made among riot & nonriot cities having a variety of political characteristics (eg, political competitiveness, the presence of "reformed" political institutions) to ascertain the possible influence of political characteristics of the city on responsiveness to riots. 4 Tables. Modified HA.

SURVEYS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RIOT INCIDENCE AND THE CHANGES IN URBAN EXPENDITURES AND REVENUE FOR U.S. CITIES WITH POPULATIONS EXCEEDING 50,000. CONCLUDES THAT RIOTS DO HAVE A MEASURABLE EFFECT ON PUBLIC POLICY, WITH INCREASED EXPENDITURES IN THE AREAS OF CONCERN TO THOSE DEMANDING CONTROL AND PUNISHMENT OF RIOTERS, AS OPPOSED TO SOCIAL WELFARE EXPENDITURES WHICH ARE CONSIDERED A CONCERN OF THE RIOTERS.

The popular notion that the Ur riots of the 1960's deprived racial integration of much of its support among whites in the US is examined by comparing att changes in areas with & without riots during each of the yrs 1963 to 1968. It was hyp'ed that any effect of riots would be strongest in areas closest to their occurrence. Data used are from 5 nationwide surveys carried out by the Nat'l Opinion Res Center. Findings offer no support for the notion of a "white backlash" as a result of Ur riots. As measured by the questions in the surveys examined, the trend toward increasing acceptance of integration in housing & Sch's continued. But there is evidence of a riot effect in places & times very close to riots. Although support for integration increased in riot areas immediately following disturbances, the magnitude of these increases was smaller than that found in similar non-riot areas for the same period & in riot areas during yrs in which no riot occurred there. The general trend toward greater a=ceptance of racial integration was neither halted nor reversed by heightened violence. 3 Tables. M. Maxfield.

A time-series analysis of individual level, perceptual data disconfirms the J-curve theory of the black urban riots (i.e., that they arise because a period of progress was followed by a sharp decline) and suggests that ambiguities surrounding black people's perceptions of their economic situation probably led to the frustration that culminated in urban violence.The methodological component of the research deals with such problems of relative deprivation-based research as: (1) the substitution of aggregate, objective-level indicators for perceptual theoretical concepts; (2) the correspondences between objective and perceptual data on both a point-by-point basis and across time-series patterns; (3) the empirical implications of failing to look at important subgroup distinctions; and (4) the crucial assumption of all forms of relative deprivation theory that future expectations of need fulfillment, especially in the period of rising satisfactions, are a function of current levels of need fulfillment. The research calls for modifications in the structure and application of relative deprivation theory in light of the findings in these areas.