POLITICAL ACTION AND BLACK CHURCH-ASSOCIATED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS

Michael Leo Owens

Department of Political Science

State University of New York at Albany

Paper prepared for delivery at the Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Los Angeles, California, May 3-6, 2000

Michael Leo Owens is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at SUNY Albany.Formerly Senior Research Associate at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, he will be teaching in the Political Science Department at Emory University (2000-2002) in Atlanta. His research interests include religion and public policy, urban politics and policy, and local and state government.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Political Development by Community Development Corporations
3. Black Church-Associated CDCs in New York City

Types (Table1) (Table 2)

Programs and Activities (Table 3)

Funding (Table 4)

4. Temporal Politics: Four Forms of Political Action

Electoral Action (Table 5)

Protest Action (Table 6)

Legislative-Regulatory Action (Table 7)

Civic Action (Table 8)

5. Reflection, Inference and Conclusion

References

Notes