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• Community organization
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• Local government
• Power (Social sciences)
• Sociology, Urban

• Community power -- Case studies
• Community leadership

• Reed Town, Japan: A Study in Community Power Structure and Political Change (originally published 1974; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Yasumasa Kuroda (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Negro Leadership Class (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Daniel C. Thompson, contrib. by Martin Luther King (page images at HathiTrust)

• Participatory Politics: Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Elisabeth Soep (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008), ed. by Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• African Youth on the Information Highway: Participation and Leadership in Community Development, ed. by Osita Ogbu and Paschal Mihyo (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2018), ed. by Terry Kading (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Workshop for Morality: The Islamic Creativity of Pesantren Daarut Tauhid in Bandung, Java (2008), by Dindin Solahudin (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ten Ways to Fight Hate on Campus: A Response Guide for College Activists (Montgomery, AL: Teaching Tolerance, c2004), by Brian Willoughby, illust. by Ulla Puggaard (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Rising Above Gangs and Drugs: How to Start a Community Reclamation Project (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1995), by Billie Sargent Hatchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Dennis Romano (HTML and Epub with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Kiwanis Magazine (partial serial archives)

• 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists (revised edition, 2020), by Spencer Sunshine (PDF files with commentary at spencersunshine.com)
• Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide (fifth edition; Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, c2017), by Jim Carrier, ed. by Richard Cohen, contrib. by Brian Willoughby, Carrie Kilman, Booth Gunter, Wendy Via, and Lecia Brooks (HTML and PDF with commentary at splcenter.org)
• Don't Mourn, Organize! SDS Guide to Community Organizing, by Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) (PDF page images at MSU)

• Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual (1997), by American Civil Liberties Union (HTML with commentary at aclu.org)

• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Discovering National Elites: A Manual of Methods for Discovering the Leadership of a Society and Its Vulnerabilities to Propaganda, by Alfred De Grazia, contrib. by Paul Deutschmann and Floyd Hunter (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
• Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (HTML with commentary at tfp.org)

• The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1977), by David G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), ed. by Joseph W. Esherick (HTML at UC Press)

• Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)

• European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Dina Gusejnova
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James S. Grubb (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714, by James S. Amelang (PDF files at LIBRO)

• From East Germans to Germans?: The New Postcommunist Elites (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Jennifer A. Yoder (page images at HathiTrust)

• Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India: Gujarat, c. 1850-1960 (London and New York: Routledge, c2022), by Riho Isaka (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Douglas E. Haynes (HTML at UC Press)

• Deepening Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), ed. by Kurt von Mettenheim and James M. Malloy (page images at Pitt)

• The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000), by Ussama Makdisi (HTML at UC Press)

• Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Mark Masterson (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

• A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity, by Michael E. Meeker (HTML at UC Press)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

• How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (London: Meatspace Press, 2019), ed. by Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Christine Mattern, and Joe Shaw (multiple formats with commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• Dynamic Americanism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill co., c1920), by Arnold Bennett Hall (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Grassroots Governance? Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), ed. by Donald Iain Ray and P. S. Reddy (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Grassroots Governance? Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), ed. by Donald Iain Ray and P. S. Reddy (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Jean C. Oi (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Town Life in the Fifteenth Century (2 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Alice Stopford Green
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Gutenberg text

• The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936), by James Tait (PDF at McMaster; NO US ACCESS)

• New England's Gift to the Nation: The Township, by Arnold Green (page images at MOA)

• The Political Organization of the Mbembe, Nigeria (London: H. M. S. O., 1965), by Rosemary Harris (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)

• (Re?)Discovering Chiefs: Traditional Authority and the Restructuring of Local-Level Government in Papua New Guinea (Regime Change and Regime Maintenance in Asia and the Pacific discussion paper #18; Canberra: Dept. of Political and Social Change, Australian National University, 1997), by R. J. May (page images at HathiTrust)

• South Carolina Counties, Districts, Parishes and Townships; Also a List of Tax Collectors for 1765, a List of Justices of The Peace for 1765, a List of Justices of The Peace for 1785 (Columbia, SC: J. Revill, ca. 1945), by Janie Revill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Local Problems, Libertarian Solutions (1978), by William D. Burt (illustrated HTML at amatecon.com)
• Politics and Policies in State and Local Governments (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Herbert Kaufman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ideal Deal: How Local Governments Can Get More for Their Economic Development Dollar (Washington: Good Jobs First; Chicago: University of Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development, c2007), by Rachel Nicole Weber and David Santacroce (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• About America: How the United States is Governed (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, c2004), by Paul A. Arnold (PDF at state.gov)

• The English Borough in the Twelfth Century (1914), by Adolphus Ballard (PDF at McMaster)

• How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (London: Meatspace Press, 2019), ed. by Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Christine Mattern, and Joe Shaw (multiple formats with commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• The Shame of The Cities (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Lincoln Steffens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dynamic Americanism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill co., c1920), by Arnold Bennett Hall (HTML and page images at Indiana)

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