Inequality and governance in the metropolis : place equality regimes and fiscal choices in eleven counties / Jefferey M. Sellers, Marta Arretche, Daniel Kübler, Eran Razin, editors.

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English
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  • London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
  • [2017]
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xix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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    Comparative territorial politics [More in this series]
    Summary note
    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 between sub-national jurisdictions, or mitigate and compensate for local differences. The volume examines these regimes in a global sample of eleven democracies. The cases encompass unitary and federal states as well as developed and developing countries, with examples from Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. 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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Metropolitan inequality and governance : a framework for global comparison / Jefferey M. Sellers
    • Contested metropolis : inequality and the multilevel governance of metropolitan regions in the USA / Jefferey M. Sellers, Erika R. Petroy, and Sasha Hondagneu-Messner
    • Metropolitan governance and social inequality in India / Annapurna Shaw
    • Metropolitanization, urban governance, and place (in)equality in Canadian metropolitan areas / R. Alan Walks
    • "Tamed Tieboutianism" and spatial inequalities in Swiss metropolitan areas / Daniel Kübler and Philippe E. Rochat
    • Place equality regimes and municipal choices in metropolitan Spain : regional institutions and local political orientations / Clemente J. Navarro, María Jesús Rodríguez-Garcia, Cristina Mateos, and Lucía Muñoz
    • The Brazilian place equality regime / Marta Arretche
    • The mosaic of local governments in post apartheid South Africa : municipal asymmetries and spatial inequality / Helder Ferreira do Vale and Robert Cameron
    • Interlocal disparities in Israel's metropolitan areas : the impact of crisis and recovery in a neoliberal regime / Eran Razin
    • Place equality regime(s) in French city regions / Deborah Galimberti and Gilles Pinson
    • Socio-spatial inequalities in the Czech metropolitan areas : the case of Prague metro / Tomáš Kostelecký and Jana Vobecká
    • The equal metropolis? : can social policies counteract diversity in Swedish metropolitan settings? / Anders Lidström.
    ISBN
    • 9781137573773 ((hardback))
    • 1137573775
    LCCN
    2016958045
    OCLC
    951508746
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