Can Urban Regimes Travel in Time and Space? Urban Regime Theory, Urban Governance Theory, and Comparative Urban Politics

Urban regime theory has shaped the urban politics research agenda in the United States for the past two decades. The article argues that urban regime theory draws on public and corporate behavior and strategies that were typical to the industrial era in the United States. As a result, the theory is...

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Published inUrban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 864 - 889
Main Author Pierre, Jon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2014
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
BUSINESS
comparative urban governance
Conceptualization
Cosmology
Economics
Emergence
Globalization
Governance
GOVERNMENT
Hierarchies
Hierarchy
POLICY
Political economy
Political Science
Politics
Regime Theory
Space and Time
STATE
Statsvetenskap
Strategy
Travel
U.S.A
United States of America
Urban Areas
urban governance
Urban government
urban political economy
urban regime theory
Urban Studies
United States > US
urban political economy
urban regime theory
urban governance
comparative urban governance
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Summary:Urban regime theory has shaped the urban politics research agenda in the United States for the past two decades. The article argues that urban regime theory draws on public and corporate behavior and strategies that were typical to the industrial era in the United States. As a result, the theory is insensitive to changes in institutional hierarchies, economic globalization, and the emergence of new types of actors and issues in urban politics. Urban governance theory conceptualizes agency more generically that allows the theory to travel better than urban regime theory in time and space.
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ISSN:1078-0874
1552-8332
DOI:10.1177/1078087413518175