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Global Issues: Governance Mechanisms

By Daniel Kaufman, Director, Global Programs at the World Bank Institute and Isa Baud, Chair of International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam

Background material: DKaufman.ppt and Urban governance.ppt

Reading List:

Governance

Urban Governance

  • Baud, I.S.A. and J. Post, (eds), (2002). Re-aligning Actors in an urbanizing world: institutions and governance in an international perspective, Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot
  • Brenner, N. New State Space, (2004) Urban governance and the rescaling of statehood, Oxford University Press.
  • Douglass, M. (2000) Mega-urban Regions and World City Formation: Globalisation, the Economic Crisis and Urban Policy Issues in Pacific Asia, in: Urban Studies 37(12): 2315-2335
  • Hajer, M. and H. Wagenaar (2003). Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society. Cambridge University Press
  • Harris, Nigel  (2003) Globalisation and the management of cities in Economic and Political Weekly 38 (June 21), 2535-2543.
  • Johnson, H and Wilson, G (2000) Biting the Bullet: Civil Society, Social Learning and the Transformation of Local Governance  World Development  28 (11), 1891-1906.
  • Kundu, A (2003) Urbanisation and urban governance; search for a Perspective beyond neo-liberalism Economic and Political Weekly 38 (29), 3079-3088.
  • Tendler, J. (1997). Good Government in the Tropics, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Pierre, J and Peters, G (2000). Governance, Politics and the State. St. Martin's Press, New York.

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