Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis: Place Equality Regimes and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries

by Jefferey M. Sellers (Editor), Marta Arretche (Editor), Daniel Kübler (Editor), Eran Razin (Editor)

Overview

This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions. Extended, diversified metropolitan regions have become the dominant form of human settlement, and disparities among metropolitan places figure increasingly in wider trends toward growing inequality. Regimes of place equality are increasingly critical components of welfare states and territorial administration. They can aggravate disparities in services and taxes, or mitigate and compensate for local differences. The volume examines these regimes in a global sample of eleven democracies, including developed and developing countries on five continents. The analyses reveal new dimensions of efforts to grapple with growing inequality around the world, and a variety of institutional blueprints to address one of the most daunting challenges of twenty-first century governance. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137573780
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/26/2016
Series:	Comparative Territorial Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	847 KB

About the Author

Jefferey Sellers is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southern California, USA. The author of Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy (2005), he is the co-founder and co-director of the International Metropolitan Observatory (IMO), the largest international network for the study of metropolitan regions and their politics, of which this book is the third collective publication.

 

Marta Arretche is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is also the editor of the Brazilian Political Science Review.

 

Daniel Kübler is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Democracy Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-director of the International Metropolitan Observatory.

 

Eran Razin is Professor of Geography, the Leon Safdie Chair in Urban Studies, Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Studies and Head of Floersheimer Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.- Chapter One: Place, Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Framework for Comparative Analysis (Jefferey Sellers).- PART ONE: THE TIEBOUTIAN MODEL.- Chapter Two: Contested Metropolis:  Inequality and the Multilevel Governance of Metropolitan Regions in the United States; Jefferey Sellers.- Chapter Three: Tamed Tieboutianism and Spatial Inequalities: Regimes of Place Equality in Swiss Metropolitan Regions; Daniel Kübler and Philippe Rochat.- Chapter Four: Metropolitan Governance and Inter-Municipal Inequality in Canada’s Metropolitan Regions;  R. Alan Walks.- Chapter Five: Metropolitan Governance and Social Inequality in India; Annapurna Shaw.- PART TWO: THE FULL EQUALIZATION MODEL.- Chapter Six: The Equal Metropolis? Can Social Policies counteract diversity in Swedish metropolitan settings?; Anders Lidström.- Chapter Seven: Social and socio-spatial inequalities in Prague metropolitan area Czech Republic; Tomas Kostelecky and Jana Vobecká.- Chapter Eight: The Mosaic of Local Governments: Decentralizing Reforms, Municipal Asymmetries and Spatial Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Helder do Vale and Robert Cameron.- PART THREE: THE PARTIAL EQUALIZATION MODEL.- Chapter Nine: Place Equality Regimes in French City Regions; Deborah Galimberti and Gilles Pinson.-Chapter Ten: Interlocal Disparities in Israel's Metropolitan Areas: The Impact of Crisis and Recovery in a Neoliberal Regime; Eran Razin.- Chapter Eleven: Regimes of Place Equality and municipal choices in metropolitan Spain; Clemente J. Navarro; Maria Jesús Rodriguez, Cristina Mateos, Lucia Muñoz.- CONCLUSION.- Chapter Thirteen: Regimes of place equality and metropolitan social inequalities: a cross-national perspective; Jefferey Sellers, Eran Razin, Marta Arretche and Daniel Kübler.

What People are Saying About This

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“These outstanding essays demonstrate the growing significance of metropolitan spatial inequalities in a range of countries across the globe. Using comparative data on taxing and spending, the authors show how institutions at different levels of government accentuate or mitigate spatial inequalities. This well-planned collection provides a vital guide to the causes of this new form of inequality and the strategies that work to remedy it.” (Professor Margaret Weir, Brown University, USA)

“In a context of growing global inequality, looking into the mechanisms that organize fiscal solidarity among jurisdictions in charge of providing services to citizens is a much needed perspective. By disentangling the complex territorial relations within which metropolitan regions are embedded, the authors of this collection highlight the important role of policies in shaping individual choices, their context sensitivity and the diversification of places across the globe. A must read for understanding the importance of spatial relations in policy analysis.” (Professor Yuri Kazepov, University of Vienna, Austria)

“This book could not be more timely. There is growing concern worldwide with the intensification of socio-spatial inequalities both within and between cities around the globe. Responses to this situation have ranged from capitulation to despair, and in some parts of the world we are seeing mobilization and active citizen challenges to longstanding political practices and governance paradigms as a result. This edited collection offers a much-needed and constructive perspective on the topic by placing scales of governance and creative policy responses at the heart of the debate. Through deep engagement with eleven different country cases, it becomes clear that there is no single response to the challenges of growing inequality and exclusion in a globalizing and urbanizing world, and that certain political arrangements and policy tools are more well-suited to the task of making cities more equitable, redistributive, and manageable places to live.” (Professor Diane E. Davis, Harvard University, USA)

Editorial Reviews

I much enjoyed this book and found it a stimulating and informative read that generated new ideas for further research. It also fills an important gap in the ‘metropolitan debate’ by linking intra-metropolitan perspectives to those of international, global comparison and a concern with global processes in which cities take an increasingly more pre-eminent role. … I certainly would recommend this book as an engaging, thought-provoking and informative read.” (Tassilo Herrschel, Regional Studies, Vol. 53 (12), 2019)

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