The book explores how the mayor and members of the Burlington Progressive Coalition were elected several times, and explores such issues as development and growth, citizen participation, municipal ownership, taxes, quality of life issues, and foreign policy concerns.
Preface Historical Background and Theoretical Framework on Socialist Municipalities Burlington, Bernard Sanders, and the Progressive Coalition Local Government and City Finances in Burlington Development and Growth Issues and the Sanders Administration Citizen Participation, Democracy, and the Neighborhoods The Question of Ownership Under Municipal Socialism Taxes and the Redistribution of Wealth Quality-of-Life Issues and the Sanders Administration Central America: Sanders and the Peace Movement Conclusion Epilogue Selected Bibliography Index
STEVEN SOIFER is Assistant Professor of Planned Social Change in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. He is a former statewide organizer for the Vermont Alliance, a citizens' group of low- and moderate-income people.
?Soifer presents what he terms a "critically sympathetic look" at
the administration of Mayor Bernard Sanders of Burlington, Vermont.
Soifer examines the operation of the Sanders administration and the
ability of an avowed socialist to pursue socialist policies in
Burlington. Sanders's success as an electoral candidate (first as
mayor and later as U.S. congressman) derived more from the energy,
idealism, and charisma of the man than from an abiding faith in a
socialist party. Soifer explores the achievements of the Sanders
administration in local development and growth, citizen
participation, municipal ownership, taxes and wealth
redistribution, quality of life issues, and the peace movement.
Soifer concludes that while Sanders did not achieve a substantial
socialist agenda in Burlington, the city during the Sanders years
was run better than under previous Democratic and Republican
administrations. In addition, Sanders used his position to speak
out for the disenfranchised and to address pressing global issues
of the day with a voice that reached beyond Burlington. All levels
of readers.?-Choice
"Soifer presents what he terms a "critically sympathetic look" at
the administration of Mayor Bernard Sanders of Burlington, Vermont.
Soifer examines the operation of the Sanders administration and the
ability of an avowed socialist to pursue socialist policies in
Burlington. Sanders's success as an electoral candidate (first as
mayor and later as U.S. congressman) derived more from the energy,
idealism, and charisma of the man than from an abiding faith in a
socialist party. Soifer explores the achievements of the Sanders
administration in local development and growth, citizen
participation, municipal ownership, taxes and wealth
redistribution, quality of life issues, and the peace movement.
Soifer concludes that while Sanders did not achieve a substantial
socialist agenda in Burlington, the city during the Sanders years
was run better than under previous Democratic and Republican
administrations. In addition, Sanders used his position to speak
out for the disenfranchised and to address pressing global issues
of the day with a voice that reached beyond Burlington. All levels
of readers."-Choice
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