Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy

ISBN-13: 9780521657075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 422 str.

Jefferey M. Sellers; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates

Opis

Cities play a growing role in governing. This new role fits within a context that nation-states, global market forces and cities themselves continue to define. The analysis of this book focuses on how local efforts in the distinct European systems of France and Germany as well as American counterparts have provided for environmental quality and social inclusion alongside local economic development. Only in certain European settings has policy making at multiple levels accomplished all three objectives at once. In those settings, effective governance from below has relied on adequate support from higher levels of governments and a favorable position in the global economy.

Recenzje

'Sellers' book will make a useful addition to the burgeoning literature that critiques hyper-globalist interpretations of globalization. … an interesting read and one that raises questions over how relationships of governance are constituted in different spatial contexts.' Royal Geographical Society

Spis treści

1. Understanding the post-industrial political economy; 2. Pathways of post-industrial transformation; 3. The real world of decentralization; 4. The strategies of urban regimes; 5. The making of urban regimes; 6. The shaping of movement politics; 7. The politics of the post-industrial trilemma; Appendix A. City profiles; Appendix B. Background of the research; Appendix C. Supplemental tables.