Looking Back to Look Forward

Abstract

Abstract. The current theories of governance and economic development require the possession of certain social values. The spreading of these values is poor in the Hungarian society. Accordingly, real development cooperation activities and real bottom-up organised partnership networks in Hungary are not frequent phenomena. It seems that the early results of a research project in the agglomeration of Pécs verify this hypothesis.

Zwischenstadtland Schweiz. Zur politischen Steuerung der suburbanen Entwicklung in Schweizer Gemeinden

“…Imbroscio , 1998b(vgl. Imbroscio , 2003Jessop 1997;Lauria 1999;Stone 1998;Strom 2001;Davies 2003;Stone 2004Stone , 2005. Gleichzeitig bleibt gemäß Pierre (1999Pierre ( , 2005 (Stone 1989(Stone , 2001, Detroit (Orr und Stoker 1994), Portland (Leo 1998), Chicago (Hamilton 2002) oder Phoenix (Collins 2008) analysiert.…”

Filling in the Resource Gap of Urban Regime Analysis to Make It Travel in Time and Space

“…Responding to criticism, Stone has reconsidered his original work several times (Stone 2001(Stone , 2005(Stone , 2013 and has greatly contributed to clarifying its core properties. Nevertheless, he seems to have finally surrendered in a recent contribution, in which he suggests to abandon the urban regime concept for that of "urban political order" (Stone 2015).…”

Multi-centred governance and circuits of power in liberal modes of security

“…These relations are characterised by asymmetries, for example between the constitutional-legal powers of nation states, which corporate powers have to negotiate, and the financial powers of corporations on which states depend to deliver on their electoral mandates. 7 There are, however, other breaks in the circuitry of liberal governance including actors within civil society that are capable of disrupting state and corporate power, particularly given the rise of various digital technologies for social media communication, networked distributed manufacture and the enhanced surveillance of populations. 8 This paper advances the novel concept of 'multi-centred governance' as an emergent condition of these circuits of power and resistance.…”

“…Within the metropolitan life of the US itself, urban political analysis has also emphasised the interdependence of state and corporate actors in the 'power to' fix and re-fix regimes of governance as the constitutional-legal powers and electoral mandates of state actors are necessarily traded with corporate actors for the financial, organisational and informational resources that are needed to actually deliver on these mandates. 36 This takes us some distance from the accomplishment of 'fascistic' rule, even of the 'soft', mundane, variety in liberal modes of security. Relations of power-dependence suggest that authoritarian state projects, premised on sovereign command and control, are destined 37 to be organisationally out-flanked by competing centres of power that recognise the need to translate their potential to govern into actually existing strategies of governance.…”

“…38 This point has been grasped in the policy networks literature 39 and through reference to the 'exogenous' shocks to governing coalitions that can be generated by innovations or crises of production and discipline in the interrelationship between state and corporate actors. 40 However, the more pressing analytical challenge, certainly for understanding the strategic powers of association in problems of security, is to recognise the contribution of actors in civil society to the constitution of circuits of power and resistance. Criminological work has begun to address this through reference to strategies for 'governing from below' adopted by, for example, paramilitaries, serious crime networks and vigilantes.…”