Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan
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Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan

Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers

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Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan

Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers

About this book

When the 2011 municipal takeover in Flint, Michigan placed the city under state control, some supported the intervention while others saw it as an affront to democracy. Still others were ambivalent about what was supposed to be a temporary disruption. However, the city's fiscal emergency soon became a public health emergency—the Flint Water Crisis—that captured international attention.

But how did Flint's municipal takeovers, which suspended local representational government, alter the local political system? In Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan, Ashley Nickels addresses the ways residents, groups, and organizations were able to participate politically—or not—during the city's municipal takeovers in 2002 and 2011. She explains how new politics were created as organizations developed, new coalitions emerged and evolved, and people's understanding of municipal takeovers changed.

Inwalking readers through the policy history of, implementation of, and reaction to Flint's two municipal takeovers, Nickels highlights how the ostensibly apolitical policy is, in fact, highly political.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables and Figures
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue
  5. Introduction. The Politics of Municipal Takeovers: Power, Participation, and Protest
  6. 1. Why Cities Go Broke and Flint’s Financial Collapse
  7. 2. Saving Cities from Themselves: How States Respond to Urban Fiscal Crises
  8. 3. The Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeover: How the Policy Creates Politics
  9. 4. Contextualizing the Flint Case: Race, Class, and Contentious Politics
  10. 5. The "Development Agenda": Implementing Municipal Takeover in Flint
  11. 6. From Development Agenda to Development Regime: Allocating Benefits and Burdens and Interpreting Winners and Losers
  12. 7. Defending Democracy: Responding to the Municipal Takeover
  13. 8. From Fiscal Emergency to Public Health Emergency: Differing Responses to the Flint Water Crisis / Co-authored with Amanda D. Clark
  14. Conclusion. Summary Findings, Implications, and Recommendations
  15. Appendix 1. Research Design and Methodology
  16. Appendix 2
  17. Appendix 3
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index