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The Political Ecology of the Metropolis
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The Political Ecology of the Metropolis

Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behaviour in Eleven Countries
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR64,00

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A growing majority of humanity lives in sprawling, interconnected urban regions. Diversified metropolitan geographies have replaced the centuries-old divide between urban and rural areas, and transformed the local sources of electoral politics. The resulting patterns of electoral support and participation have shifted axes of partisan competition to the right. This volume undertakes the first international comparative analysis of metropolitan political behaviour. The results support a powerful new thesis to explain many recent shifts in political behaviour: the metropolitanisation of politics.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-907301-44-5
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum06.05.2013
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 29 mm
Gewicht802 g
Artikel-Nr.4161041
KatalogLibri
Datenquelle-Nr.A21052040
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Jefferey M. Sellers is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. The author of Governing From Below: Urban Regions in the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and editor of Metropolitanization and Political Change (VS Verlag, 2005) as well as numerous articles and book chapters, he is co-founder and co-director of the International Metropolitan Observatory Project. Daniel Kubler is Professor of Political Science at the University of Zurich and co-director of the International Metropolitan Observatory Project. He has co-edited Metropolitan governance: capacity, democracy and the dynamics of place (Routledge, 2005) and authored numerous articles and book chapters related to metropolitan governance, urban democracy and public policy analysis. Alan Walks is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and book chapters related to electoral geography, urban inequality, and the relationship between suburbanization and ideology. Melanie Walter-Rogg is Professor of Political Science at the University of Regensburg. She is author of a number of scholarly articles and book chapters related to metropolitan governance, urban democracy as well as political culture and behaviour.