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Another Global City
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 100.00This 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...
De 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...
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...
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...
Multilevel Urban Governance and the `European City'
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 139.00With chapters on theatre and opera, architecture and urban planning, the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes Italians' changing relationship to their new nation state and the monarchy, the conflicts between the peninsula's ancient elites and the rising middle class,... 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...
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...
Russian Officialdom in Crisis
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 38.00This book is the first full account of the development of rural self-government in Russia from the emancipation of the serfs to its bureaucratisation in the counter-reforms of 188990. Through analysis of central and provincial perceptions of local self-government and conflicting ideologies of reform. Professor Pearson challenges the conventional... more...









