Culture Wars and Local Politics.(Review) (book review)
American Political Science Review, March, 2001 by Ferman, Barbara
Culture Wars and Local Politics. Edited by Elaine B. Sharp. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 250p. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.
Although political conflict is certainly no stranger to U.S. cities, the contributors to Culture Wars suggest that a new kind of conflict, heavily embued with moral overtones, is surfacing with more frequency on the urban landscape. Battles over abortion, gay and lesbian rights, hate crimes, and the like, are taking their place along side the more traditional disputes associated with service delivery, economic development, and redistribution of resources. The morality-based nature of these new culture wars has, according to the contributors, created a new type of politics that is evidenced in the way issues are presented,...
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