KEVIN J. DELANEY is associate professor of sociology at Temple University and author of Strategic Bankruptcy.RICK ECKSTEIN is associate professor of sociology and assistant director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University, as well as the author of Nuclear Power and Social Power.

"Public Dollars, Private Stadiums helps us understand the political processes involved in using public money for new sports stadiums. It is a must read for anyone interested in this important new issue." - Richard E. Lapchick (Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University) "This book is readable and smart . . . Kevin Delaney and Rick Eckstein show how conflicts over sports subsidies are emblematic of the kinds of power relationships that prevail in each community." - Lee Clarke (author of Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster) "Every time you hear a politician or millionaire sports mogul start to promote the benefits of building a brand-spanking new stadium, your immediate reaction, as a taxpayer, should be to watch your wallet. This revealing, dead-on investigation of the modern-day sports stadium boondoggle and its often-devastating impact on American cities is an essential read for anyone, sports fan or not, who wants to avoid getting fleeced." - Steve Lopez, (Los Angeles Times columnist) "Public Dollars, Private Stadiums helps us understand the political processes involved in using public money for new sports stadiums. It is a must read for anyone interested in this important new issue." - Richard E. Lapchick (Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University) "This book is readable and smart . . . Kevin Delaney and Rick Eckstein show how conflicts over sports subsidies are emblematic of the kinds of power relationships that prevail in each community." - Lee Clarke (author of Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster) "Every time you hear a politician or millionaire sports mogul start to promote the benefits of building a brand-spanking new stadium, your immediate reaction, as a taxpayer, should be to watch your wallet. This revealing, dead-on investigation of the modern-day sports stadium boondoggle and its often-devastating impact on American cities is an essential read for anyone, sports fan or not, who wants to avoid getting fleeced." - Steve Lopez, (Los Angeles Times columnist)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Local Growth Coalitions and Publicly Funded Stadiums2. Strategies for Building Private Stadiums with Public Dollars3. Cincinnati: Queen City of Local Growth Coalitions4. Cleveland: The Comeback Growth Coalition5. Minneapolis and Hartford: Declining Local Growth Coalitions6. Denver, Phoenix, and San Diego: Nascent Growth Coalitions on the Frontier7. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia: Strong versus Weak Local Growth Coalitions8. Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and DemocracyAppendix: MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex