Rethinking Comparative Urban Politics: From Urban Regime Theory to Urban Governance?

摘要: For the past two decades urban regime theory has defined politics agenda in United States. Observers outside US however have noticed that does not provide an analytical framework for comparative research and to some degree is abstraction of political economy. Instead, there a growing interest emerging theories on governance as conceptual vehicle cross-national research. The paper compares with regard their potential It looks specifically at how assess role inter-governmental relationships, participation politics, embeddedness