City Politics in America: An Introduction

Judd, Dennis R.; Hinze, Annika Marlen

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“…Regulating the monopolistic tendencies of large-scale industries, a balance system can be created. As per the words of Judd and Hinze (2018), the political space of America II has recently been impacted by various movements such as immigration control and the black lives matter movement that demonstrated the complexities of urban and regional politics within the country. The political economy enables the governmental powers to establish a political identity for the people to provide equal opportunities for justice.…”

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The New Political Economy of Regulation

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2023

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The new political economy of regulation is related to the establishment of a balanced regulatory framework that contributes to the synthesis of political and economic aspects. The political economy of regulation also contributes to the establishment of direct governance and controlling processes on economic activities by public sector agents. The aim of the paper is to analyse the new political economy of regulation. Based on a secondary qualitative and detective approach, the article studied the scope and advantages of the new political economy on regulations and its implications within a capitalist structure. A thematic analysis is also conducted to indicate that the new political economy of regulations contributes to establishing a framework for monitoring and distributing wealth, resources and knowledge fairly in all strata of society. Market monopoly is demolished while agricultural and corporate sectors are aligned in their operations to bridge the economic and political gap between the rich and the poor segment of society. Thus, it is concluded that the new political economy provides valuable principles for a balanced and systematising regulatory framework in which capitalist extremism and structural poverty are addressed, contributing to the socialist distribution of resources.

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“…Most cities have unicameral legislatures, and even cities with small city councils have many more elected officials per resident than do Congress or most state legislatures. In legislative bodies of this size, a single member or a handful of delegates often set the agenda-a phenomenon unthinkable in state houses or Congress (Judd and Hinze 2018).…”

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“…Our definition of policy entrepreneurship builds on the figure of the policy entrepreneur in the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) within political science (Cairney and Jones 2016; Kingdon 1984). The classic Federal-level policy entrepreneur supplies a policy solution when external events drive politics to her pet issue.…”

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“…We trace the political imperative to address economic inequality to the rise of urban policy entrepreneurship. In John Kingdon's seminal formulation, policy entrepreneurs consist of a highly diverse set of activists, scholars, lobbyists, elected officials and related political actors distinguished by their willingness “to invest their resources in return for future policies they favor” (Kingdon 1984, 214). Policy entrepreneurs are united by their deep knowledge of the policy process, which allows them to set agendas, reframe issues and convert their favored policies into law (Cairney and Jones 2016).…”

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“…Participants in these networks inhabit the role of the policy entrepreneur strategically, providing field-tested and well researched policy solutions to the political pressure their own activities create. We build our framework from the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) tradition in political science and policy studies (Cairney and Zahariadis 2016; Kingdon 1984; Zahariadis 2014). The MSA focuses on the rare windows of policy opportunity that open when three conceptual “streams” of political activity intersect: 1) a problem stream of issues on which politicians focus, 2) a politics stream of elections and other events compelling policy makers to act, and 3) a policy stream of viable responses to an agreed-upon problem.…”

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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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What drives variations in public health and social services expenditures? the association between political fragmentation and local expenditure patterns

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The US spends two times more than the OECD average in health expenditure but has a much smaller portion of public health spending to total health expenditure than other OECD countries. While it has been suggested that public health and social services spending is crucial to promoting health outcomes, less is known about what drives variations in public health expenditure across regions. This study aims to examine whether fragmented structure of local governance is associated with variations in public health and social services expenditures. Using the US Census of Governments, we constructed a panel dataset of political fragmentation and local government spending patterns (1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) for 792 US counties (population > 60,882, top 25%) and employed Least Squares Dummy Variable (LSDV) and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) models. We found that per capita public health spending tended to be smaller in areas where the degree of political fragmentation was higher (Coef: -0.034; p <0.01), particularly when general-purpose governments were more fragmented (Coef: -0.087; p <0.001). The proportion of public health spending decreased when local governments were more fragmented (Coef: -0.012; p<0.001). Social services expenditures and their proportions to total government expenditure fell with an increase in the degree of political fragmentation. Our findings suggest that fragmented governance settings, in which localities are more likely to face competition with others, may lead to a reduction in public spending essential for population health and that political fragmentation can also have a deterrent effect on broader categories of health-related social services spending.

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City Politics in America: An Introduction

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