Charting Change in the City: Urban Political Orders and Urban Political Development

Weaver, Timothy P. R.

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“…Moreover, a focus on 'best practice' can reinforce a unidirectionality of knowledge flows without appreciation for "translocal geographies of knowledge production and circulation" [124] (p. 10). This may preclude certain 'alternative' or bottom-up practices from taking root or occluding them from the toolkit of possible responses [125,126]. Here, May has observed a "culture of expertise that is at odds with democracy through a separation between the forms of justification it deploys and the contexts of its application... in which models and ideas for urban development circulate without sensitivity to context" [127] (p. 2189).…”

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What Can We Learn from Urban Crisis?

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The irreversible transition towards urban living entails complex challenges and vulnerabilities for citizens, civic authorities, and the management of global commons. Many cities remain beset by political, infrastructural, social, or economic fragility, with crisis arguably becoming an increasingly present condition of urban life. While acknowledging the intense vulnerabilities that cities can face, this article contends that innovative, flexible, and often ground-breaking policies, practices, and activities designed to manage and overcome fragility can emerge in cities beset by crisis. We argue that a deeper understanding of such practices and the knowledge emerging from contexts of urban crisis may offer important insights to support urban resilience and sustainable development. We outline a simple conceptual representation of the interrelationships between urban crisis and knowledge production, situate this in the context of literature on resilience, sustainability, and crisis, and present illustrative examples of real-world practices. In discussing these perspectives, we reflect on how we may better value, use, and exchange knowledge and practice in order to address current and future urban challenges.

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“…Centering elected officials in the study of urban politics also diverts attention from changing voter preferences and the multi-city activist coalitions that now prove so effective in setting the policy agenda (Leitner, Sheppard and Sziarto 2008;Nicholls, Miller and Beaumont 2014;Uitermark and Nicholls 2017). A growing stream of research on "political orders" incorporates this shift in public opinion by acknowledging that ruling regimes are fluid and hybrid-that they can simultaneously pursue the imperatives of growth and equity (Stone 2017;Weaver 2021). However, the key questions of how progressive activists direct attention to their issues and how they convert that attention into policy, remain open.…”

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“…Reversing the classic supposition that cities lack the capacity and bargaining position to enact policies opposed by landowners and businesses, a growing body of work investigates the co-existence of equity policy and the imperative for economic growth (Fulton and Doussard 2021;Joy and Vogel 2021; Schragger 2016;Stone 2015Stone , 2017Weaver 2021). Such research focuses on policy results, minimizing the more fundamental question of how inequality transitions from an issue that cities have the power to address to a problem which their elected officials must address.…”

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Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality

Doussard

Schrock

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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Why are cities acting against inequality? We attribute the growth of municipal economic policy to multi-city urban policy entrepreneurship networks. These networks combine activists who create pressure to address inequality with policy experts who supply the legislative means to do so. We illustrate the concept through the Fight for $15 campaign in Seattle and Chicago. Drawing on more than 100 interviews, participant observation and secondary documents, we show that advocates for municipal policy reform use national policy entrepreneurship networks to develop policy-specific and generalized policy advocacy techniques. Centering urban policy entrepreneurship brings into focus three important aspects of current municipal public policy: 1) The two-way interaction between national and local policy campaigns. 2) Partnerships between activists who set the political agenda and policy entrepreneurs who act on political opportunity. 3) The role of national advocacy and policy entrepreneurship networks in converting new policy ideas into routine, off-the-shelf policy solutions.

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“…5 This historical development of party competition in Canadian citieswhich has parallels in several American cities (Bridges and Kronick 1999) -continues to resonate in municipal politics today. Left-leaning municipal election candidates often find themselves opposed by candidates whose platforms respond to progressive proposals not so much with explicitly conservative alternatives, but instead with appeals to "pragmatic" and "non-ideological" local policies (Laschinger 2016; see also Weaver 2018Weaver 2021. These experiences suggest that debates about the ideological character of municipal politics may indeed be asymmetric not only in the distant history of urban political development but also in contemporary city politics-elected representatives on the left articulating a more ideological vision of the municipal arena, and elected representatives on the right insisting that ideology has no place in municipal politics.…”

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The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology

Lucas

2021

Urban Affairs Review

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This paper explores the structure of elite disagreement about the ideological or nonideological character of municipal politics. I propose two possible relationships between a representative’s own ideology and their beliefs about the character of municipal politics: an “ends-against-the-middle” pattern, in which ideologues on the left and right embrace an ideological vision of municipal politics, whereas moderates insist that municipal politics is not ideological; and an “asymmetric visions” pattern, in which individuals on the left endorse an ideological view of municipal politics and those on the right oppose it. I use new survey data from more than 800 mayors and councillors in Canada to assess these possible relationships. While both are supported by the data, the asymmetric visions pattern is the stronger of the two: the nonideological view of municipal politics is most firmly embraced by municipal politicians of the moderate right, while the ideological vision is most common among representatives on the left. This pattern, I argue, is in keeping with a century of municipal political history and should be incorporated into our theories of municipal elections, representation, and policy disagreement.

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Charting Change in the City: Urban Political Orders and Urban Political Development

Cited by 7 publications

References 77 publications

What Can We Learn from Urban Crisis?

What Can We Learn from Urban Crisis?

Urban Policy Entrepreneurship: Activist Networks, Minimum Wage Campaigns and Municipal Action Against Inequality

The Ideological Structure of Municipal Non-Ideology

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