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Libraries and the Circulation of Power : = A Historical Case Study of Pittsburgh, 1924-2016.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Libraries and the Circulation of Power :/
Reminder of title:	A Historical Case Study of Pittsburgh, 1924-2016.
Author:	Widdersheim, Michael Majewski.
Description:	1 online resource (824 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Library science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355411058

Libraries and the Circulation of Power : = A Historical Case Study of Pittsburgh, 1924-2016.
Widdersheim, Michael Majewski.

Libraries and the Circulation of Power :A Historical Case Study of Pittsburgh, 1924-2016. - 1 online resource (824 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This project explores how political power shaped the development of a regional public library infrastructure in greater Pittsburgh, United States. The project is interdisciplinary in that it addresses research problems from two fields. In library studies, research related to the public sphere and public libraries uses an exhausted paradigm, one that is anachronistic and anatopic. A new public sphere paradigm is needed for research about public libraries. Also in library studies, historical accounts of libraries in greater Pittsburgh have overlooked the history of the regional public library system. A history of the system has yet to be written. In political science, Habermas's Machtkreislauf, or circulation of power model faces several objections and it has not received sufficient empirical testing. The model could be refined by applying it to an actual case. To address these problems, this project dovetails them by asking the following research question: How does the Machtkreislauf model apply to the regional public library system in Pittsburgh? To answer this question, this project uses historical case study, a research strategy that was newly developed for this project. This study proceeds in several stages: source collection and analysis, data collection and analysis, and data interpretation. Source collection combines archival research, interviewing, and fieldwork to gather source materials, periodize the case, and limn the boundaries of the case. Data collection uses qualitative content analysis to construct a coding instrument, validate it, and apply it to the source materials. Data interpretation uses qualitative comparative analysis to identify and describe the causal conditions that explain the case's outcomes. This project contributes new findings to multiple areas. To the area of research methodology, it proposes a novel research design, historical case study. To political science, it revises the Machtkreislauf model using new concepts, including circuits, tessellations, broadcast/narrowcast, and formal decision. To library studies, it offers a historical account of the regional public library system in Pittsburgh using the concept of decision cycles. Also to library studies, it proposes a new theory where configurations of civil activity, responsiveness, legitimacy, and resistance explain how the public sphere affects public library development.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355411058Subjects--Topical Terms:

561163
Library science.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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