If Mayors Ruled the World - Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin R. Barber is senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is also president and founder of the Interdependence Movement and the author of seventeen books, including Jihad vs. McWorld and Strong Democracy . Barber's project for a Global Parliament of Mayors has attracted scores of urban leaders and intercity networks and is on course for a pilot convening in 2016. He lives in New York City. Klappentext A provocative and original book which argues that the nation-state has become democratically dysfunctional and obsolete, and it is cities and the mayors that run them that are doing a better job in the face of the challenges of our time: climate change, terrorism, poverty and trafficking. Zusammenfassung Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy's best hope?

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin R Barber, Benjamin R. Barber
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2014
• EAN: 9780300209327
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20932-7
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Politische Führer und Führung, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Political leaders & leadership, Urban communities, Political leaders and leadership, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government