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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.
Regulating Suburban Politics: “Suburban-Defense Transition,” Institutional Capacities, and Territorial Reorganization in Southern California
Regulating Suburban Politics: “Suburban-Defense Transition,” Institutional Capacities, and Territorial Reorganization in Southern California
There can been little doubt that urban regime theory and regulation theory have reinvigorated studies of governance in capitalist states. Yet despite a common interest in governance, only recently have attempts been made to achieve theoretical commensurability between the two approaches (Painter, this volume). This is perhaps because regulation theory and urban regime theory have hitherto dealt with two different spatial scales, national and urban, respectively. This state of affairs seems to be changing, however. On the one hand, urban regime theory has broken through the theoretical impasse reached by community power structure analysis by situating the ...
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