Innovations in Urban Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415495042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 146 str.

Davies Jonathan

Opis

Previously published as a special issue of Policy Studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of the field of urban politics and presents future challenges for urban political research.

Spis treści

Editorial: The Case for Urban Politics.  Rethinking the Policy – Politics Connection.  Patterns of Politics in Canada’s Immigrant-Receiving Cities and Suburbs: How Immigrant Settlement Patterns Shape the Municipal Role in Multiculturalism Policy.  Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed…: How Institutions Change (and Stay the Same) in Local Governance.  Local Governance and the Dialectics of Hierarchy, Market and Network.  Globalisation/Commodification or Deglobalisation/Decommodification in Urban South Africa.  Neoliberalism and Local Governance – Cross-National Perspectives and Speculations

O autorze

Dr Jonathan S Davies is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Institute for Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.