Books

Articles

“Charting Change in the City: Urban Political Orders and Urban Political Development.” Urban Affairs Review (2021).

“Market Privilege: The Place of Neoliberalism in American Political Development.” Studies in American Political Development 35.1 (2021): 104-126.

“The New Enclosures: London, New York City, Philadelphia and the Transformation of Public Space.” New Political Science: Journal of Politics and Culture 41.3 (2019): 423-442.

“A City of Citizens: Social Justice and Urban Social Citizenship.” New Political Science: Journal of Politics and Culture 40.1 (2018): 84-102.

“By Design or by Default: Varieties of Neoliberal Urban Development.” Urban Affairs Review 54.2 (2018): 234-266.

“Urban Crisis: The Genealogy of a Concept.” Urban Studies 54.9 (2017): 2039-2055.

“Restoring the political: thoughts on the contributions on Adolph Reed Jr.” Labor Studies Journal 41.3 (2016): 242-247.

Book Chapters

“What Is the Relationship between COVID-19 and the Movement to ‘Defund the Police’?” In Global Reflections on Covid-19 and Urban Inequalities, Volume 1: Community and Society, edited by Brian Doucet, Rianne van Melik and Pierre Filion. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021. With Richardson Dilworth.

“Ideas, Interests, Institutions, and Urban Political Development.” In How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development, edited by Richardson Dilworth and Timothy Weaver. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. With Richardson Dilworth

“’Trying Out Our Ideas’: Ideology, Institutions, and Urban Neoliberalization.” In How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development, edited by Richardson Dilworth and Timothy Weaver. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Cities and the Federal Government.” In CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy, edited by C. Palus and R. Dilworth.  Los Angeles: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2016.

Encyclopedia Entry

“Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones in the Philadelphia Region.” In The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, 2016.

Book Reviews

Clarence N. Stone and Robert P. Stoker, eds., Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City (Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2015) in Perspectives on Politics 15.4 (2017).

Michael J. Rich and Robert P. Stoker, Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization: Lessons from Empowerment Zones (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014), in Planning Perspectives 30.3 (2015)

Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom, eds., Justice in the American Metropolis (Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press, 2011), in New Political Science 34.2 (2012)

Popular Writing

"The False Promise of Opportunity Zones." The Boston Review. April 13, 2023.

“Tax law’s ‘opportunity zones’ won’t create opportunities for the people who need it most.” The Conversation. May 15, 2018. 

       Reissued by CityLab, Salon.com and the Chicago Tribune.

“Claims of a New Era are Overstated.” In a “Forum Dialogue: Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era.” Debate with Clarence N. Stone and Robert Stoker. Urban Affairs Forum (online), February, 2018. 

“What is “Neoliberalism”? How is it Implicated in Urban Political Development?” Urban Affairs Forum (online), August, 2017.

“Enterprise Zones: The Zombie Idea That Just Won’t Die.” Urban Affairs Forum (online), July 2017. 

“Despite Itself, Labour Deserves a Second Look, Jackal Magazine (online), June, 2017. 

“Elite Empowerment,” Jacobin (online), April 21, 2016.

Book Debate with Jonathan Davies on Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, April 2016.