Описание: This study examines the implications of the model of development sought to be introduced in India through the governance reforms of the early 1990s - a model that bypasses Panchayat Raj institutions, resulting in a majority of the population being left outside the purview of development.
Автор: Alba Alexander, Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie Название: Private Metropolis: The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance ISBN: 1517910811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517910815 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with municipalities and other local governments inherited from the urban past. Shadow governments take many forms, ranging from billion-dollar special authorities that span entire urban regions, to public–private partnerships and special districts created to accomplish particular tasks, to privatized gated communities, to neighborhood organizations empowered to receive private and public funds. They finance and administer public services ranging from the prosaic (garbage collection and water utilities) to the transformative (economic development and infrastructure). Private Metropolis demonstrates that this complex ecosystem of local governance has compromised and even eclipsed democratic processes by moving important policy decisions out of public sight. The quasi-public institutions of urban governance generally escape the budgetary and statutory restraints imposed on traditional local governments and protect policy decisions from the limitations and vagaries of electoral politics. Moving major policy decisions into a privatized and corporatized realm facilitates efficiency and speed, but at the cost of democratic oversight. Increasingly, the urban electorate is left debating symbolic issues only tangentially connected to the actual distribution of the resources that affect people’s lives. The essays in Private Metropolis grapple with the difficult and timely questions that arise from this new ecology of governance: What are the consequences of the proliferation of special authorities, privatized governments, and public–private arrangements? Is the trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency worth it? Has the public sector, with its messiness and inefficiencies-but also its checks and balances-ceded too much power to these new institutions? By examining such questions, this book provokes a long-overdue debate about the future of urban governance.Contributors: Douglas Cantor, California State U, Long Beach; Ellen Dannin, Pennsylvania State U; Jameson W. Doig, Princeton U; Mary Donoghue; Peter Eisinger, New School; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Rebecca Hendrick, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sara Hinkley, U of California, Berkeley; Amanda Kass, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; James M. Smith, U of Indiana South Bend; Shu Wang, Michigan State U; Rachel Weber, U of Illinois at Chicago.
Автор: Alec Thornton Название: Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South ISBN: 3030171868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030171865 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Part I: Emergent UA Themes and Concepts from the North and South.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Urban Agriculture in and around Cities in Developed and Developing Countries: A Conceptualization of Urban Agriculture Dynamics and Challenges.- Chapter 3: Urban Agriculture as a Field: Governance, Communication and Collective Action.- Chapter 4: Urban agriculture and the battle for history in Melbourne and Sгo Paulo.- Chapter 5: Smart Food Cities on the Menu?: Integrating Urban Food Systems into Smart City Policy Making.- Part II: Opportunities for Top-down/Bottom-up collaboration? Case studies from the Global North.- Chapter 6: Food Sovereignty: A Nirvana Concept for Swiss Urban agriculture?.- Chapter 7: Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urban Agriculture through the Lenses of Social Justice: A Case Study in Milan.- Chapter 8: The Emergence of the Food Land Belt in Wallonia: An Innovative System to Feed Local Populations?.- Chapter 9: Identifying and Solving Regulatory Issues and Solutions through some Case Studies of Urban Farming in Australia.- Chapter 10: Keeping up Appearances: Conflicting values in State Opposition to Growing Food in Public.- Part III: The South takes the Lead: Case Studies from BRICS, Bhutan and Zambia.- Chapter 11: Service Learning and Stakeholder Action: Technology and Education for Urban Agriculture in Johannesburg, South Africa.- Chapter 12: Emerging Enterprises and Sustainability in the Food System: Food Entrepreneurs in South Africa.- Chapter 13: Reconceptualizing Urban Agriculture in Africa: Issues of Scale, Class and Institutional Support in Zambian Copperbelt Towns.- Chapter 14: Food Security and land-use conflicts within regional planning: the recent experience of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.- Chapter 15: Changing Agricultural Landscape and Immigrant Population in Thimphu, Bhutan.- Chapter 16: Typological Diversity of Agriculture in a Densely Urbanised Region of Sao Paulo, Brazil.- Chapter 17: Urban Agriculture in Chinese Cities: Practices, Motivations and Challenges.
Автор: Thornton Alec Название: Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South ISBN: 3030171892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030171896 Издательство: Springer Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Part I: Emergent UA Themes and Concepts from the North and South.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Urban Agriculture in and around Cities in Developed and Developing Countries: A Conceptualization of Urban Agriculture Dynamics and Challenges.- Chapter 3: Urban Agriculture as a Field: Governance, Communication and Collective Action.- Chapter 4: Urban agriculture and the battle for history in Melbourne and Sгo Paulo.- Chapter 5: Smart Food Cities on the Menu?: Integrating Urban Food Systems into Smart City Policy Making.- Part II: Opportunities for Top-down/Bottom-up collaboration? Case studies from the Global North.- Chapter 6: Food Sovereignty: A Nirvana Concept for Swiss Urban agriculture?.- Chapter 7: Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urban Agriculture through the Lenses of Social Justice: A Case Study in Milan.- Chapter 8: The Emergence of the Food Land Belt in Wallonia: An Innovative System to Feed Local Populations?.- Chapter 9: Identifying and Solving Regulatory Issues and Solutions through some Case Studies of Urban Farming in Australia.- Chapter 10: Keeping up Appearances: Conflicting values in State Opposition to Growing Food in Public.- Part III: The South takes the Lead: Case Studies from BRICS, Bhutan and Zambia.- Chapter 11: Service Learning and Stakeholder Action: Technology and Education for Urban Agriculture in Johannesburg, South Africa.- Chapter 12: Emerging Enterprises and Sustainability in the Food System: Food Entrepreneurs in South Africa.- Chapter 13: Reconceptualizing Urban Agriculture in Africa: Issues of Scale, Class and Institutional Support in Zambian Copperbelt Towns.- Chapter 14: Food Security and land-use conflicts within regional planning: the recent experience of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.- Chapter 15: Changing Agricultural Landscape and Immigrant Population in Thimphu, Bhutan.- Chapter 16: Typological Diversity of Agriculture in a Densely Urbanised Region of Sao Paulo, Brazil.- Chapter 17: Urban Agriculture in Chinese Cities: Practices, Motivations and Challenges.
Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that carried out participatory budgeting reforms between 1997 and 2000 with those that did not, the authors examine whether and how institutional reforms take effect.
Bootstrapping Democracy highlights the importance of local-level innovations and democratic advances, charting a middle path between those who theorize that globalization hollows out democracy and those who celebrate globalization as a means of fostering democratic values. Uncovering the state's role in creating an "associational environment," it reveals the contradictory ways institutional reforms shape the democratic capabilities of civil society and how outcomes are conditioned by relations between the state and civil society.
Описание: Drawing from literature on law, urban geography and urban planning, as well as reported case-law concerning the invocation of constitutional rights in South African cities, this book examines whether and to what extent the invocation of legal rights before South African courts have contributed to the advancement of social justice in the city.
Описание: Drawing from literature on law, urban geography and urban planning, as well as reported case-law concerning the invocation of constitutional rights in South African cities, this book examines whether and to what extent the invocation of legal rights before South African courts have contributed to the advancement of social justice
Автор: Judd Dennis R., McKenzie Evan, Alexander Alba Название: Private Metropolis, Volume 32: The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance ISBN: 151791082X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517910822 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with municipalities and other local governments inherited from the urban past. Shadow governments take many forms, ranging from billion-dollar special authorities that span entire urban regions, to public–private partnerships and special districts created to accomplish particular tasks, to privatized gated communities, to neighborhood organizations empowered to receive private and public funds. They finance and administer public services ranging from the prosaic (garbage collection and water utilities) to the transformative (economic development and infrastructure). Private Metropolis demonstrates that this complex ecosystem of local governance has compromised and even eclipsed democratic processes by moving important policy decisions out of public sight. The quasi-public institutions of urban governance generally escape the budgetary and statutory restraints imposed on traditional local governments and protect policy decisions from the limitations and vagaries of electoral politics. Moving major policy decisions into a privatized and corporatized realm facilitates efficiency and speed, but at the cost of democratic oversight. Increasingly, the urban electorate is left debating symbolic issues only tangentially connected to the actual distribution of the resources that affect people’s lives. The essays in Private Metropolis grapple with the difficult and timely questions that arise from this new ecology of governance: What are the consequences of the proliferation of special authorities, privatized governments, and public–private arrangements? Is the trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency worth it? Has the public sector, with its messiness and inefficiencies-but also its checks and balances-ceded too much power to these new institutions? By examining such questions, this book provokes a long-overdue debate about the future of urban governance.Contributors: Douglas Cantor, California State U, Long Beach; Ellen Dannin, Pennsylvania State U; Jameson W. Doig, Princeton U; Mary Donoghue; Peter Eisinger, New School; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Rebecca Hendrick, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sara Hinkley, U of California, Berkeley; Amanda Kass, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; James M. Smith, U of Indiana South Bend; Shu Wang, Michigan State U; Rachel Weber, U of Illinois at Chicago.
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