City and Regime in the American Republic
Elkin, Stephen L.![City and Regime in the American Republic](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/133/1336390/CHSBZCOP031336390.jpg)
Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities are, can, and should be. Rejecting the idea that two goals of city politics--equality and efficiency--are opposed to one another, Elkin argues that a commercial republic could achieve both. He then takes the unusual step of addressing how the political institutions of the city can help to form the ...