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‘This is a pioneering study. It raises the big questions of how ideas of democratic participation spread, and why they “stick” or do not. We don’t have anything comparable in the field of local government, urban planning or comparative politics to rival t
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INTERNATIONAL POLICY DIFFUSION AND PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING Ambassadors of Participation, International Institutions and Transnational Networks
URBAN POLITICS IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY
Urban Politics in a Global Society Series Editors Richard Stren Department of Political Science University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada Christopher Gore Department of Politics & Public Administration Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario, Canada ‘This is a pioneering study in the field. It raises the big questions of how ideas of democratic participation spread, and why they “stick” or do not. We don’t have anything comparable in the field of local government, urban planning or comparative politics to rival the spread of this very specific “tool” of local participation. The trend in urban studies internationally is to move from localized case studies to comparative studies involving different cities and even countries, but this study goes further with both comparative case studies in several continents, and the description and analysis of a general process of diffusion.’ — Richard Stren, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto,Canada
Today, cities around the world house more than half of our global population, and their size and economic power are growing. Nowhere is this more evident than incities of the so-called “developing” areas of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In many countries of the global south, large cities have already outstripped most northern cities in size, while the functions and administrative powers of all cities—large, medium-sized, and small—are growing as a result of decentralization, democratization, and the initiatives of civil society and community groups at the local level. These changes are uneven and almost always localized, but they highlight the increasing importance of understanding the politics of cities and the manners in which cities are taking their place globally among the major nodal points in the international political system. Urban Politics in a Global Society publishes well-researched and topical books that examine the political aspects of cities and urban development from the vantage points of political science, sociology, economics, geography, environment, planning, and policy. The series focuses especially on cities in the global south, and/or on populations from the global south living in cities in the north. The series editors will also consider proposals that examine urban politics or approaches to urban development in countries not considered the global south, but where there are lessons, experiences or trends from the global south that resonate or are applicable to cities in the north. The series editors welcome comparative or single-country studies that address a range of topics, including, but not limited to: urban reform; political opposition or movements; housing and resettlement; health, sanitation and infrastructure; migration, mobility and demographic transitions; poverty and well-being; intergovernmental relations; electoral systems and systems of rep
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