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San Francisco is a uniquely favored city, but its politics are beset with extraordinary problems. Power is divided among traditional and new minorities, a mayor with modest authority, and a large city bureaucracy guided by insensitive professional norms. The special San Francisco ""politics of profit"" and ethnic conflict are complicated and profoundly influenced by such external forces as regional, state, and federal government, and by the force of a national

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part 1: The Background for Research -- 1. Theories of Law and Social Change -- 2. The Society of Panola County -- Part 2: The Law and Voting Equality -- 3. Congress and Voting Legislation -- 4. Enforcement and Legal Content -- 5. The Politics of Litigation -- 6. COFO and Black Politics, 1964-1965 -- 7. The Growth of Political Power, 1965-1968 -- 8. Racial Political Strategies in the New South -- Part 3: The Law and Educational Equality -- 9. The Federal Mandate of Change -- 10. Changing Schools in Panola County -- 11. Limitations on the Laws Effect -- Part 4: The Law and Economic Equality -- 12. Federal Subsidy of Economic Rights -- 13. Federal Regulations of Economics Rights -- Part 5: The Effect of Law on Social Change -- 14. Effect on Social Change: Regulation and Regulator -- 15. Effect on Social Change: Regulated and Regulatee -- Epilog: The Corner is Turned in Panola -- Index

Helping Children Left Behind: State Aid and the Pursuit of
Educational Equality. Edited by John Yinger. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2004. 145p. $40.00.The role of state courts in defining educational finances is the focus
of this book that results from a 2001 conference in the Maxwell School of
Citizenship at Syracuse University. The author explores the role of state
appellate courts since the seminal case of Serrano v. Priest
(1971) challenging the constitutionality of local property taxation to
fund local schools. About one-half of subsequent state courts followed
suit, but the other half did not.