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Liberal City, Conservative Stateby Robert William Thurston
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 63.00This book examines Moscow's politics and urban history between the failed 1905 revolution and the outbreak of the First World War. more...
Federalism and Local Politics in Russiaby Cameron Ross; Adrian Campbell
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95With articles by a high quality set of contributors, including Richard Sakwa, Darrell Slider and Vladimir Gelman, this book explores the increasingly authoritarian character of Putins rule, especially in his second term since 2004. more...
Local Politics and Democratization in Russiaby Cameron Ross
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95Exploring urban democracy in Russia, this book considers a wide range of cities of different types, and of different political allegiances, showing that the power and status of cities varies tremendously across the federation, as does the development of grassroots democracy. more...
Another Global Cityby P. Saunier; S. Ewen
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 90.00This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities. more...
Resources for Renewalby Satu Kalliola; Risto Nakari
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 102.00In the 1990s, the public sector has experienced the same kind of productivity pressures as has the private sector in most of the western countries. In Finland, the state and the local government organs have pursued to meet these demands by cutting down their personnel costs and by applying various models of New Public Management. This book sheds light on the possibilities of solving the problems in public sector modernization by changing the modes of operations of work organizations. The results presented in the book are based on development expriences in Finnish municipalities, and cover a period of eight years (1991-1998).The participative approach is focused on the simultaneous development of the quality of working life and the productivity... more...
Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman Cityby Andrew Bell
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 50.00Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial discussion of the fall of Ceausescu in 1989 prompts theoretical considerations about the inseparability of authority and its manifestation; andscrutiny of Julius Caesar's gestures towards self-definition introduces the complexity of ancient political relations. The simultaneous presence of both popular affection for wondrous and kingly individuals, and also egalitarian suspicion of it, is detected... more...
Multilevel Urban Governance and the `European City'by Nico Giersig
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 69.95De machinerie van de stadby Stefan Couperus
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 50.50Industrialisering en verstedelijking maakten de steden in Nederland en elders in Europa vanaf het einde van de negentiende eeuw tot de machinekamer waar nieuwe sociale, economische en ruimtelijke verhoudingen vorm kregen. Wonen, werken, handeldrijven, verplaatsen en recreëren in de stad werden mogelijk gemaakt door de stedelijke overheid. Daarmee werd stadsbestuur onderwerp van wetenschappelijke en staatkundige discussies. In deze studie worden de aard en context van deze discussies gedurende de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw geanalyseerd in relatie tot de veranderende stedelijke bestuurspraktijk.De denkers over stadsbestuur gebruikten buitenlandse contacten, kennis en ervaringen als een intellectueel kompas bij de totstandkoming, legitimatie... more...
A Politics of Inevitabilityby Ross Beveridge
Springer 2012; US$ 59.95This book provides a detailed analysis of the controversial privatisation of the Berlin Water Company (BWB) in 1999. As with other cases of privatisation around the world, the city's government argued there was no alternative in a context of public debts and economic restructuring. Drawing on post-structuralist theory, the analysis presented here steps outside the parameters of this neat, straightforward explanation. It problematises the 'hard facts' upon which the decision was apparently made, presenting instead an account in which facts can be political constructions shaped by normative assumptions and political strategies. A politics of inevitability in 1990s Berlin is revealed; one characterised by depoliticisation, expert-dominated... more...
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