Regime theorists often present business interests as coherent and unified communities with unitary interests. A central principle of regime theory, however, is that business elites tend to occupy privileged positions within regime coalitions because of the scope of resources and expertise they command and cities require for economic development and/or fiscal solvency. Cities are generally home to a wide range of business activities operating at various scales, and business elites representing various corporations in different economic sectors arguably command different kinds of resources and expertise that are functional to the economic activities with which they are affiliated. Various mixes of business elites representing different economic activities might therefore produce differentially biased input regarding urban policy-making and affect the types of regime coalitions that cities develop. Utilizing compilations of interlocking directorates among major organizations across three sectors, profiles of the corporate and social community structures of 24 U.S. cities are generated and a correlation matrix comprised of business and social organizational categories is produced. Factor analysis of the correlation matrix identifies three separate mixes of corporate and social organizational categories that generally conform to descriptions of developmental, caretaker, and progressive regime typologies. These three factors serve as prototypes of the three broad regime types and their corporate community structures. Correlations of the 24 cities with each of the three regime prototypes generally match their regime types as identified through previous case studies. Variations in regime types among cities might therefore be attributed to varying degrees of diversity in the kinds of corporations headquartered or located within them. Closer attention to the economic base of cities-the producers, after all, of local business elites-may reveal internal biases and/or material predisposition towards some urban policies over others by local business elites in relation to the economic activities with which they are linked.
De Socio M. Marginalization of sunset firms in regime coalitions: a social network analysis, Regional Studies. Business leaders and organizations are central to the formation and maintenance of urban regimes. Business communities are not monolithic, however, and they vary in their composition of economic activities and industry sectors, and in the resources they command. Differentiation in business community resources has implications for regime networks, particularly in cities where large percentages of their economic base are comprised of industries in decline. Utilizing social network analysis, this paper finds that business leaders associated with traditional manufacturing are marginalized within the prevailing regime networks of two United States 'rustbelt' cities in favour of leaders associated with newer, more stable, industries. [image omitted] De Socio M. La marginalisation des entreprises en perte de vitesse sous des coalitions politiques, Regional Studies. Les chefs d'entreprise et les organisations sont au coeur de l'etablissement et de le maintien des regimes regionaux. Cependant, les milieux d'affaires ne sont pas monolithiques, dont une variation de la structure de leurs activites economiques et de leurs secteurs industriels, et des ressources disponibles. La variation des ressources des milieux d'affaires a des implications pour les reseaux de regimes, surtout dans les grandes villes ou une proportion importante de la base economique comprend des industries en perte de vitesse. Employant une analyse des reseaux de relations sociales, cet article laisse voir que les chefs d'entreprise associes a l'industrie traditionnelle s'averent marginalises au sein des reseaux de regimes actuels de deux grandes villes aux Etats-Unis situees dans une 'ceinture d'industrie en declin', en faveur des chefs associes aux industries a la fois nouvelles et plus stables. Theorie des regimes urbains Analyse des reseaux de relations sociales Conseils d'administration emboites Gouvernance urbaine De Socio M. Marginalisierung absteigender Firmen in Regime-Koalitionen: eine soziale Netzwerkanalyse, Regional Studies. Bei der Bildung und Erhaltung urbaner Regime spielen Geschaftsfuhrer und Organisationen eine zentrale Rolle. Allerdings handelt es sich bei Geschaftsgemeinschaften nicht um monolithische Gebilde; vielmehr schwankt die Zusammensetzung ihrer wirtschaftlichen Aktivitaten und Industriesektoren sowie der von ihnen kontrollierten Ressourcen. Eine Differenzierung der Ressourcen der Geschaftsgemeinschaft wirkt sich auf die Regime-Netzwerke aus, insbesondere in Stadten, in denen ein grosser Anteil der Wirtschaftsbasis aus im Niedergang befindlichen Branchen besteht. In diesem Beitrag wird mit Hilfe einer sozialen Netzwerkanalyse festgestellt, dass in den vorherrschenden Regime-Netzwerken von zwei Stadten im 'Rust Belt' der USA die mit der traditionellen Produktion verknupften Geschaftsfuhrer zugunsten von Geschaftsfuhrern in neueren und stabileren Branchen marginalisiert werden. Urbane Regimetheorie Soziale Netzwerkanalys...
In summer 2006, Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah, a political geographer and editorin-chief of the journal Arab World Geographer, was arrested by Israeli police after taking photographs of rural landscapes in Northern Galilee. Falah was subsequently held for 23 days, incommunicado, and without charge. An international campaign to "Free Ghazi" was launched by his family, friends and colleagues, largely over academic listservs and other media. Utilizing social network analysis and contextualizing the campaign within structures of telecommunications technologies, the purpose of this paper is to assess the various factors that contributed to the campaign's coalescence, its rapid development, and its global reach.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of extra-local economic and political forces on the business community participants of the governing regime coalition in Akron, Ohio, and in turn, how other regime partners responded to and engaged with the changing constitution of Akron's business community. Unlike the UK where municipalities receive substantial fiscal support from regional and national governments, American cities are more readily forced into regime partnerships with other public and private actors for fiscal solvency, including, primarily, the local business community. In the case of Akron, the local business community experienced a prolonged and ongoing period of comprehensive deindustrialization and economic restructuring, forcing the city into partnerships with less traditional non-private sector actors as Akron's business community structure continues to transform. A secondary objective is to forward the utility of social network analysis in regime theory applications. Social network analysis offers a way to situate arguably the most influential actors in a regime coalition. Utilizing the directories of Standard and Poor's Index of Corporations and Directors from 1975 through 2006, social network analysis is performed on the interlocking network of corporations and civic organizations based in Akron for each decade, allowing a longitudinal view of the changing business community partners of Akron's governing coalition.A fter more than two decades of prominence, urban regime theory remains at the forefront in analyses of urban politics and urban political restructuring due in large part to its grounding in political economy, its ability to convey the complexities of urban politics, and its continuing emphases on coalition building and maintenance including examinations of the various constituent parts comprising urban coalitions (de
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