Defining City Limits

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Abstract
The conclusion that cities are unable to engage in redistributive policies, as Peterson forcefully articulated in City Limits, tests on an image of citizens and officials pursuing self-evident interests through an objectively determined environment In this article the author proposes a more active view of the relationship between people and their interests-one in which political actors are seen as aggressively and continually reinterpreting and redefining their interests in an uncertain and undetermined world - and sketches the analytic, empirical, and normative implications of this alternative view.