Quiet Revolution in the South

Abstract

their values and interests. are those and followed? the first systematic examination of the extent to which the governments closest to the American 10,000-plus local school boards―respond to the wishes of the majority. Ten Thousand Democracies begins with a look at educational reforms from the Progressive era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the civil rights movement and ending with Pennsylvania's 2004 tax relief measure. Berkman and Plutzer explore what factors determine education spending levels in school districts, including the effects of public opinion, the nature of local political institutions, and the roles played by special interests. The authors show how board members are selected, how well the boards represent minorities, whether the public can bypass the board through referenda, emphasis contributors use variety quantitative methods to show how the act dramatically increased black registration and black and Mexican-American office holding. also explain modern voting rights law as to minority citizens, legal cases and giving of how the law is applied. and generate exciting new results as The authors show that once the traditional "welfare paradigm" is appropriately modified, a revitalized welfare theory can clarify the relationship between individual and social rationalitya task that continues to be of interest to mainstream and nonmainstream economists alike. show how recent work in the theory of the labor process, externalities, public and endogenous preferences can advance research in welfare theory. In a series of important theorems, the authors extend the concept of Pareto optimality to dynamic contexts with changing preferences and thus highlight the importance of institutional bias. This discussion provides the basis for further analysis of the properties and consequences of private and public enterprise and of markets and central reach a number of conclusions at odds with conventional uses print-on-demand to again make from goal is vastly