Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy

Lauria, Mickey

ISBN 10: 0761901515 / ISBN 13: 9780761901518

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761901515
• ISBN 13: 9780761901518
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Urban regime theory has gained a dominant position in the literature on local politics in the United States and its use in comparative cross-national research despite its cited shortcomings. In Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory, editor Mickey Lauria presents a challenging argument for the need to reconceptualize urban regime′s middle-level abstraction by interpreting it through the lens of the higher-level abstraction of regulationist theory. The noted contributors to this volume propose stronger conceptual linkages between local agents and institutions, regime transformation, and the restructuring of urban space. The blend of empirical and case-study chapters provide an excellent mix of theory and practice that makes Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory well suited to a broad spectrum of upper-level undergraduate courses covering urban studies, political science, sociology, and geography as well as a rich resource for academics and researchers in these fields.