Guest editor's preface metropolitan governance reform: an introduction

Stren, Richard; Cameron, Robert

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“…For example, 350 urban areas in East Asia contain multiple political jurisdictions, 135 of which have no overarching city authority (World Bank, 2015, p. 56); metropolitan areas are also highly fragmented in Latin America (Nickson, 1995). These political divisions complicate efforts to regulate urban development and deliver basic services (Stren & Cameron, 2005). Parallel efforts to create legally independent service providers focusing on particular sectors-a common product of state reform programs promulgated by development banks and international aid agencies during the 1990s-further fragment metropolitan areas in the Global South (see Herrera & Post, 2014).…”

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State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

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Contemporary urbanization in the Global South merits greater attention from scholars of comparative politics. Governance, associational life, and political behavior take on distinctive forms in the social and institutional environments created by rapid urbanization, particularly within informal settlements and informal labor markets. In this special issue, we examine forms of collective action and claims-making in these spaces. We also consider how the state assesses, maps, and responds to the demands of informal sector actors. Tackling questions of citizen and state behavior in these informal urban contexts requires innovative research strategies due to data scarcity and social and institutional complexity. Contributors to this symposium explicate novel strategies for addressing these challenges, including the use of informal archives, worksite-based sampling, ethnographic survey design, enforcement process-tracing, and crowd-sourced data.Acknowledgments:

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“…Under the debate of the importance of the engagement of the civil society with the state, the discussion about partnership is accompanied by a concern for governance (STREN and CAMERON, 2005). Governance in the context of partnership means news forms of relationships between civil society, Government and Market to carry out development programmes that involves transparency, accountability and improvement of the efficiency of public programmes and services (VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO and VASCONCELLOS, 2011;VASCONCELLOS and VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO, 2015).…”

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Partnership inside Governance Spaces: the case of the Municipal Development Forum of Igarapé-Açú, Pará, Amazonia

Sobrinho

Teixeira

2017

Cad. EBAPE.BR

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This paper discusses how partnership between local organisations and Government inside governance spaces affects local development. The aim is to raise some critical issues about the concept of partnership and about partnership effectively for municipal development. Thus, the article uses partnership as its central theory. Specifically, it explores to what extent partnership is an effective strategy for local development in areas of historical conflict between local Government and local organisations in Pará State, Brazilian Amazonia. It focuses particularly on the municipality of Igarapé-Açú, located in north-east of Pará State. Igarapé-Açú was chosen because it is a singular case of local organisations and Government partnership since 2008 when a governance space was created to carry out a partnership process called Municipal Development Forum (MDF). Methodologically, the case study was carried out from a qualitative analysis with data gathered from documents and semi-structured interviews with key-informants. The paper shows that the great challenge to build partnerships between local Government and local organisations is not in these actors capacity to represent the state and civil society in a governance forum, but in their capacity to change the local institutional environment to enable this forum to propose changes in terms of rural development. The paper shows that institutional change does not happen rapidly; changes depend on a particular historical context. In conclusion, the case of Igarapé-Açú shows that in an environment where there is great political conflict much time is needed to create links between the rural actors.Keywords: Partnership. Governance Space. Rural Development. Municipal Development. Parceria em Espaços de Governança: o caso do Fórum Municipal de Desenvolvimento de Igarapé-Açú, Pará, AmazôniaResumo O artigo discute como a parceria entre governo e organizações locais em espaços de governança afetam o desenvolvimento local. O objetivo é levantar pontos críticos sobre o conceito de parceria e sobre a efetividade da parceria para o desenvolvimento municipal. Assim, o artigo utiliza a parceria como teoria central. De forma específica, a pesquisa analisa em que medida a parceria é uma estratégia efetiva para o desenvolvimento local em áreas historicamente marcadas por conflitos entre o governo e organizações locais no estado do Pará, na Amazônia brasileira. O estudo foca-se particularmente no município de Igarapé-Açú, localizado ao nordeste do estado do Pará. Este município foi escolhido por ser um caso singular de parceria entre governo e organizações locais desde 2008 quando foi criado um espaço de governança para estabelecer um processo de parceria, denominado Fórum de Desenvolvimento Municipal (FDM). Metodologicamente, o estudo de caso foi realizado a partir de uma análise qualitativa com dados obtidos por meio de documentos e entrevistas semiestruturadas com informanteschaves. O artigo demonstra que o grande desafio para a construção de parceria entre governo e organizações...

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“…‘Metropolitan‐scale government offers the potential for resources … to be mobilised from across the city to provide services and infrastructure for all, including the poor. However, the metropolitan scale can also mean remoteness of decision‐makers from citizens and hence weakened citizen “voice”, especially of the poor’ (Stren and Cameron, : 282).…”

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“…This change, however, did not come to light in the final bill. This is interesting given the historic and ongoing arguments that there are potential improvements, efficiencies and strategic regional advantages to be gained in service delivery through cooperation between municipalities in a centralized metropolitan model (Gilbert and Gugler, ; Douglass, ; Stren and Cameron, ; Andersen and Pierre, ). International evidence reveals quite clearly, however, that models of regional governance are difficult to sell to local authorities that are reluctant to give up ‘political autonomy, resources, and power for the sake of distant benefits’ (Kantor, : 115, quoted in Andersen and Pierre, : 222–3).…”

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Decentralization is Dead, Long Live Decentralization! Capital City Reform and Political Rights in Kampala, Uganda

Gore

Muwanga

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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African cities are currently experiencing some of the highest population growth rates in the world. Accompanying this growth is constant and continuing pressure on national and local governments to develop political and institutional structures that respond to the multiple demands this demographic change provokes in relation to service delivery, economic development and social wellbeing. In response to these challenges, national governments are reviewing the political and administrative structures of their capital cities, sometimes recentralizing authority. This article examines the reforms to Kampala, capital city of Uganda. The article explains how the national government gradually created the legal conditions necessary to take over the capital city directly, and the political rhetoric and conflict that ensued. We argue that while Kampala had deep internal problems and fared poorly in service delivery, matters were exacerbated by the national government's historical indifference to the city. Moreover, past service delivery failures offered an easy rationale for recentralizing authority. We demonstrate that this recentralization was a well-planned effort by the central government to regain political control of the capital city. This article illustrates how the national government's recentralization of authority in Kampala is a significant departure from its longstanding policy of democratic decentralization.

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Guest editor's preface metropolitan governance reform: an introduction

Cited by 20 publications

References 13 publications

State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

Partnership inside Governance Spaces: the case of the Municipal Development Forum of Igarapé-Açú, Pará, Amazonia

Decentralization is Dead, Long Live Decentralization! Capital City Reform and Political Rights in Kampala, Uganda

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