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This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country
investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of
multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple
scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions.
Extended, diversified metropolitan regions have become the dominant
form of human settlement, and disparities among metropolitan places
figure increasingly in wider trends toward growing inequality.
Regimes of place equality are increasingly critical components of
welfare states and territorial administration. They can aggravate
disparities in services and taxes, or mitigate and compensate for
local differences. The volume examines these regimes in a global
sample of eleven democracies, including developed and developing
countries on five continents. The analyses reveal new dimensions of
efforts to grapple with growing inequality around the world, and a
variety of institutional blueprints to address one of the most
daunting challenges of twenty-first century governance.
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.
This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of
national traditions of local democracy across the developed world,
as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive
local institutions that integrate national and local governance
make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world,
early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of
elites. In Anglo-American and Swiss democracies, state formation
imposed enduring tensions with local civic governance. In contrast,
inclusive, integrative local institutions in Northern Europe
enabled close links with central government around common local and
national agendas, producing better governance and fuller democracy
to the present day. Through comparative analysis, the authors
demonstrate how institutions for local governance and the
participation of civil society differ widely among developed
democracies, and how local democracy relates to national democracy.
The resulting insights fundamentally recast our understanding of
how to build and maintain more effective democracies.
Around the world, metropolitan areas are emerging as the
predominant form of human settlement. Processes like
suburbanization, geopolitical fragmentation and metropolitan
segregation, once thought to be confined to exceptions like the
United States, have become facts of political and social life
throughout advanced industrial countries. These global
transformations are also contributing to major shifts in political
orientations, electoral participation and governance. This book
presents the first systematic comparative analysis of these social,
spatial and political shifts. Employing a common analytical and
methodological framework, the fifteen contributors examine variants
of these changes underway in throughout North America, Eastern and
Western Europe, and beyond.
A growing majority of humanity lives in sprawling, interconnected
urban regions. Diversified metropolitan geographies have replaced
the centuries-old divide between urban and rural areas, and
transformed the local sources of electoral politics. The resulting
patterns of electoral support and participation have shifted axes
of partisan competition to the right. This volume undertakes the
first international comparative analysis of metropolitan political
behaviour. The results support a powerful new thesis to explain
many recent shifts in political behaviour: the metropolitanisation
of politics.
A growing majority of humanity lives in sprawling, interconnected
urban regions. Diversified metropolitan geographies have replaced
the centuries-old divide between urban and rural areas, and
transformed the local sources of electoral politics. The resulting
patterns of electoral support and participation have shifted axes
of partisan competition to the right. This volume undertakes the
first international comparative analysis of metropolitan political
behaviour. The results support a powerful new thesis to explain
many recent shifts in political behaviour: the metropolitanisation
of politics.
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.
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