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Setting urban governance to achieve democratic efficiency: a demanding equilibrium in time of financial crise
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The recent worldwide financial crisis puts local governments under sever stress to change and reshaped their strategy, attitude, and commitments to citizens in order to control spending patterns. Cutting-back services, breaking contracts, rethinking welfare and additional austerity measures are a worldwide path that local governments follow to handle financial adversities. In this trouble time, albeit keeping in mind the need to ensure the basic conditions for local government to perform its functions and the capacity to implement them, several actors struggle to reshape urban governance (Pierre 1999). Political parties, unions, private capital-investment and interest groups are joined by engaged citizens to build new forms of governing coalitions (Clark 2000). The way in which rules, values and behaviors are established can alternate the equilibrium between the elements of urban regime forcing a change in kind and nature. Oscillations occur in a market-citizens continuum promoting four alternative modes of urban regime: business grounded; integrate government; caretaker; community grounded.
The goal of this paper is to analyze the different divers that constrain the settings of urban governance. The papers argument claims that political structure, economic context, demographic conditions and financial structure are the main drivers of urban regime coalition.
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Urban affairs Urban regime theory
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Rodrigues, Miguel (2013). Setting urban governance to achieve democratic efficiency: a demanding equilibrium in time of financial crise. In Urban Affairs Association 43rd Annual Conference. San Francisco, California. p. 1-26