 | Reforming New Orleans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy Subjects: New Orleans (La.) -- Politics and government; Political culture -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina 2005 -- Political aspects; In Reforming New Orleans , Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery and assess how successfully officials at the local, state, and federal levels transformed the Big Easy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Peter F. Burns is Professor of Political Science at Soka University of America and was previously Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author most recently of Electoral Politics Is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics . Matthew O. Thomas is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Chico. |
