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Bulpitt in America: Presidential Approaches, Territorial Politics and the Field of Urban Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

H. V. Savitch  and
Jeffery L. Osgood Jr.
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Abstract

This article examines Jim Bulpitt's seminal work on UK territorial politics within the American context. We approach territorial politics by examining the ebbs and flows of American urban policy during the period 1964 to 2008. In doing so, our analysis explores changes in presidential approaches towards urban policy, and thus center–periphery relations, based on the outcomes of electoral politics. We find that conditions specific to the USA cause American territorial politics to be continually fluid, often erratic and highly differentiated by party affiliation.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 45 , Special Issue 3: Territory and Power and the Study of UK and Comparative Politics , 2010 , pp. 406 - 435
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2010.

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