Governing From Below - Urban Regions and the Global Economy

Klappentext This book documents the growth of urban governance and analyses its causes and consequences. Zusammenfassung Cities play a growing role in governing. This role fits within a context that nation-states! global market forces and cities define. The book's analysis focuses on how local efforts in the European systems of France and Germany! as well as American counterparts! have provided for environmental quality and social inclusion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Jefferey M. Sellers, Jefferey M. (University of Southern Calif Sellers, Jefferey M. (University of Southern California) Sellers
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2002
• EAN: 9780521651530
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65153-0
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous