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Political Ethos and the Structure of City Government

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  • Wolfinger, Raymond E.
  • Osgood Field, John

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For years specialists in local politics have deplored the anecdotal quality of literature in the field and have called for theoretically-based comparative research. One of the most stimulating and ambitious attempts in this direction is Edward C. Banfield and James Q. Wilson's theory of “public-regardingness” and “private-regardingness,” which states that much of what Americans think about the political world can be subsumed under one or the other of these conflicting orientations and that the prevalence of one ethos over the other influences the style, structure, and outcome of local politics. Banfield and Wilson attribute these two ethics to different elements in the population and hypothesize that a number of political forms and policies are manifestations of each ethos. We intend to examine the associations between these hypothesized consequences and the demographic characteristics that are said to be the bases of the two ethics.

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  • Wolfinger, Raymond E. & Osgood Field, John, 1966. "Political Ethos and the Structure of City Government," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 60(2), pages 306-326, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:60:y:1966:i:02:p:306-326_12
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