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This analysis of the central state's weakening authority over cities bridges political geography and politics, giving a new perspective to students and researchers in urban studies, geography and political science.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mocca, Elisabetta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Temas:
Municipal home rule > Europe.
Local government > State supervision > Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
Local government > State supervision.
Municipal home rule.
Europe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Cities In Search of Freedom: European Municipalities against the Leviathan
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Introduction
  • The unit of analysis: which cities?
  • The double nature of cities
  • Of cities, states and beyond
  • About this book
  • 2 The Ebbs and Flows of Cities as Political Actors
  • Introduction
  • An evolutionary perspective of municipal autonomy
  • The municipal roots of the European political geography: a historical sketch
  • The Middle Ages
  • The early modern period
  • The late modern period: the 19th and 20th centuries
  • The fortunes of cities in the contemporary period
  • Conclusion
  • 3 The Persistence of Urban Identity in the Global World
  • Introduction
  • The global-local duality
  • Cities in the global flow
  • The resilience of the urban and the persistence of local identity
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Fleeing the State
  • Introduction
  • The loosening of the central-local relations
  • EU opportunity structures
  • Decentralisation reforms and municipal agency
  • Paradiplomacy as a means for municipal self-determination
  • The soft power of influence
  • Paradiplomacy as latent contention
  • Conclusion
  • 5 The Municipalisation of the European Political Space
  • Introduction
  • Between theory and praxis
  • The conceptual morphology of European municipalism as ideology
  • Core concepts
  • Municipal self-government
  • Mutuality and universalism
  • Europeanism
  • Coterminous concepts
  • State and market
  • Participation and elitism
  • The perimeter
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Civitas Activa: The Mobilising Potential of Cities
  • Introduction
  • The political and political action
  • The political as conflict
  • The political as deliberation
  • The urban and the political
  • Civitas activa: issues of initiation and activation
  • Civitas activa in the polis: a recipe against political apathy?
  • 7 A Municipal Way Out?
  • Introduction
  • The fragmentation of authority and the faltering state sovereignty
  • Fighting the Leviathan: municipal statecraft
  • Will cities rescue the EU?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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