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Elkin, Stephen Lloyd was born on March 1, 1941 in New York City. Son of Max and Mildred (Miller) Elkin.
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City and Regime in the American Republic
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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 kind of citizenry such a republic needs. The present workings of American urban political institutions are, Elkin maintains, characterized by a close relationship between politicians and businessmen, a relationship that promotes neither political equality nor effective social problem-solving. Elkin pays particular attention to the issue of land-use in his analysis of these failures of popular control in traditional city politics. Urban political institutions, however, are not just instruments for the dispensing of valued outcomes or devices for social problem-solving—they help to form the citizenry. Our present institutions largely define citizens as interest group adversaries and do little to encourage them to focus on the commercial public interest of the city. Elkin concludes by proposing new institutional arrangements that would be better able to harness the self-interested behavior of individuals for the common good of a commercial republic.
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Politics and Land Use Planning: The London Experience
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This book was originally published in 1974. At the time of publication, studies of the politics of planning generally emphasized the difficulties planning agencies face and the way in which political patterns impede planning efforts. This view particularly characterized the analysis of city planning in the United States. London presented a different picture and this study sought to analyze the nature of the differences, their sources and their consequences. The principal focus is on political patterns and planning in London as they appeared in the post-war period up until the middle sixties. Even though the London planning authority had few political problems, it had limited success in shaping the development of London. The study traces the source of the authority's difficulties to the manner in which planners and other members if the organization conceived the problems of choice they confronted. In general, the study seeks to describe how the authority acted, why it did so, and the consequences of its actions.
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Stephen Lloyd Elkin
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Bachelor, Alfred U., 1961; Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1969.
Career
Fellow Joint Center for Urban Studies, Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965-1966;
lecturer, Smith College, 1966-1968;
director Masters of Public Policy program Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1973-1975;
professor Director Honors, Department Government and Politics, U. Maryland., since 1985;
member departmental recruitment committee, U. Maryland., 1975-1976, 77-78;
chair graduate curriculum committee, U. Maryland., 1975-1976;
special divisional committee promotions for business school, U. Maryland., 1975-1976;
special divisional committee for review of Institute Urban Studies, U. Maryland., 1975-1976;
member departmental policy science subcommittee, U. Maryland., 1976-1977;
chair Maryland. technical advisory search committee, U. Maryland., 1976-1977;
director departmental graduate internship program, U. Maryland., 1975-1980;
member departmental resources committee, U. Maryland., 1979-1980, 80-81, 82-83;
member departmental admissions committee, U. Maryland., 1979-1980, 80-81, 86-87, 87-88;
chair departmental promotion committee junior faculty, U. Maryland., 1981;
advisory Humphrey fellows program, School Public Affairs, U. Maryland., 1983-1984, 84-85;
chair divisional review committee Institute Urban Studies, U. Maryland., 1985-1986;
member University review committee School Public Affairs, U. Maryland., 1990-1991;
member promotion and tenure committee College Behavioral and Social Sciences, U. Maryland., 1991-1993. Visiting fellow Australian National U., summer 1993. Visiting lecturer politics andadminstrn.
Beijing U., 1989; visiting scholar Derryfield School, Manchester, N.H., 1988, 89. Co-founder, co-chair Conference Group on Political Economy, 1978-1990. Co-founder, co-chair, member Executive Committee Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society, since 1988.
Co-director Maryland. Seminar in Political Theory and Political Economy, 1986-1989. Co-organizer First Indiana Conference Political Economy of the Good Society, Yale University, 1991.
Co-organizer Politics as Politics conference, Brookings Institution, 1982. Consultant Fels Institute, University of Pennsylvania, 1971, Regional Science Research Institute, Philadelphia, 1976-1977, department legislation reformed State Maryland, 1979-1980, Public Interest Law Center, Philadelphia, 1983-1984.
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Politics and Land Use Planning: The London Experience
(This book was originally published in 1974. At the time o...)
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City and Regime in the American Republic
( Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and norm...)
- Politics and land use planning : the London experience
- City and Regime in the American Republic by Stephen L. Elkin (1987-08-15)
- City and Regime in the American Republic by Stephen L. Elkin (1987-08-15)
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Politics and Land Use Planning: The London Experience
Membership
Member ASPA, American Political Science Association (section chair 1985, Best Book in Urban Theory Association, 1985-1989), International Political Science Association, Southwestern Social Science Association.
Connections
Married Diana Muriel Wilson, March 26, 1967.
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American
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Recipient Theodore Lowi Best Paper award Policy Studies Journal, 1985. Grantee Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and University Massachusetts, 1967, American Philosophical Society, 1969-1970, Social Science Research Council, 1969-1970, Ford Foundation, 1969-1970, Center for Environmental Studies, 1971, National Science Foundation, 1971, National Science Foundation-RANN, 1974, U. Maryland.,1977, 78, 88, Yale University, 1990, Bauman Foundation, 1992-1993, Americans Talk Issues Foundation, 1993-1994. Leverhulme fellow U. Leicester, 1969-1970, Lehrman Institute fellow, 1980-1981, U. Maryland., 1993-1994.Recipient Theodore Lowi Best Paper award Policy Studies Journal, 1985. Grantee Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and University Massachusetts, 1967, American Philosophical Society, 1969-1970, Social Science Research Council, 1969-1970, Ford Foundation, 1969-1970, Center for Environmental Studies, 1971, National Science Foundation, 1971, National Science Foundation-RANN, 1974, U. Maryland.,1977, 78, 88, Yale University, 1990, Bauman Foundation, 1992-1993, Americans Talk Issues Foundation, 1993-1994. Leverhulme fellow U. Leicester, 1969-1970, Lehrman Institute fellow, 1980-1981, U. Maryland., 1993-1994.