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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791077903321

Titolo

Reconstructing urban regime theory : regulating urban politics in a global economy / / editor, Mickey Lauria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : SAGE, , 1997

ISBN

1-4833-2780-9

1-4522-4890-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 278 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

LauriaMickey

Disciplina

320.85

Soggetti

Municipal government

Municipal government - United States

Local government

Local government - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : reconstructing urban regime theory / Mickey Lauria -- Concrete research, urban regimes, and regulation theory / Mark Goodwin, Joe Painter -- Spatial structures of regulation and urban regimes / Marshall M. A. Feldman -- A neo-Gramscian approach to the regulation of urban regimes : accumulation strategies, hegemonic projects, and governance / Bob Jessop -- City politics in an era of globalization / Christopher Leo -- Governance, urban regime analysis and the politics of local economic development / Kevin R. Cox -- Regulation, regime and practice in urban politics / Joe Painter -- Coalition, market and state : postwar development politics in Boston / Cynthia Horan -- City planning and the post war regime in Philadelphia / Robert A. Beauregard -- Cleveland, the comeback city : the politics of redevelopment and sports stadiums amidst decline / W. Dennis Keating -- Regulating suburban politics : suburban-defense transition, institutional capacities and territorial reorganization in Southern California / Andrew E. G. Jonas -- Regulating urban regimes : reconstruction or impasse / Mickey Lauria.

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a robust conceptual framework, urban regime theory has - despite its cited shortcomings - gained a dominant position in the



literature on local politics, in addition to its recent use in contexts outside the United States and in comparative cross-national research. Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory presents a challenging argument for the need to reconceptualize urban regime's middle level abstractions by interpreting it through the higher level abstractions of regulationist theory. The contributors propose stronger conceptual linkages between local agents and institutions, re