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The New Localism
Comparative Urban Politics in a Global Era
Edited by:
- Edward G. Goetz - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
- Susan E. Clarke - University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
December 1993 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made to counterbalance the new emphasis on world interests? Comprehensive and timely, this book answers these and other vital questions by exploring local political restructuring in the face of massive global economic change.
Susan E Clarke
Introduction
Richard C Hula
The State Reassessed
James Chandler
Local Authorities and Economic Development in Britain
Brian Jacobs
Birmingham
Wisla Surazska
Local Government in Poland
Gabor Peteri
Market as Pressure or Market as Possibility
Thomas Klak and Jamie Rulli
Regimes of Accumulation, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and Export Processing Zones
Dele Olowu
Local Institutions and Development
Peter M Ngau
Political Restructuring and the Development Process in Kenya
Edward Goetz
Conclusion
