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Multilevel Urban Governance and the `European City'
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99De machinerie van de stad
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... more...
A Politics of Inevitability
Springer 2011; US$ 47.99This 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... more...
Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 94.90Hauptbeschreibung Die Untersuchung gibt einen Überblick über 20 Jahre Verwaltungsmodernisierung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Eingebettet in die völker-, europa- und verfassungsrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen stellt sie unter Betonung historischer und politikwissenschaftlicher Bezüge die Bemühungen um Verwaltungsreformen in einem strukturschwachen und... more...
Resources for Renewal
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... more...
Liberal City, Conservative State
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 124.99This book examines Moscow's politics and urban history between the failed 1905 revolution and the outbreak of the First World War. more...
Urban Politics and Democratisation in Russia
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, and to the specific nature of Russia?s highly politicized and negotiated form of asymmetrical... more...
Federalism and Local Politics in Russia
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia. Many commentators have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity. But there is in fact a third transition under way in Russia that is of no less importance, the need to reconfigure central-local... more...
Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 49.99Andrew 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... more...









