January 29, 2003

Great Cities Faculty Scholar Seminar


The next Great Cities Faculty Scholar Seminar will be held on:
Wednesday, January 29 at 9:00 am in the large conference room

Faculty Scholar Dennis Judd will lead a discussion on the following topic:
"The Death of Local Democracy: Policy Communities and the New Institutional Power"
In recent years Dennis Judd has been engaged in a series of research projects on urban tourism; recent publications include The Tourist City (co-edited with Susan S. Fainstein; Yale University Press, 1999), The Infrastructure of Play (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), and Cities and Visitors (Edited with Lily Hoffman and Susan Fainstain; Blackwell, 2003). His research is now focused upon the way in which the inter-urban competition for tourism is changing the institutional structure of local politics by lodging increasing fiscal and administrative resources in special authorities that are insulated from public accountability. Dr. Judd is a professor in the Department of Political Science.

For background reading prior to the seminar, attached are two readings by Dr. Judd (et al). Please join us....we look forward to seeing you. (Light breakfast refreshments will be served.)

Convention Center Wars and the Decline of Local Democracy
Tourism and the New Urban Politics: Restructuring Regimes, or Reconstructing the Local State?