Models of local governing coalitions: city politics and policy effects in Spanish municipalities

Navarro, Clemente J.; Rodríguez-García, María Jesús

doi:10.1080/02723638.2015.1034485

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“…Indeed, it has been shown that some initiatives can promote hybrid governance processes when they combine different urban policy sectors, promoting the mobilization and coordination of their habitual actors. This is the case, for example, of the regeneration of historic town centers [55].…”

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Integrality in the Design of Urban Development Plans. Analysis of the Initiatives Promoted by the EU in Spain

Dorado-Rubín

Guerrero-Mayo

Navarro

2021

Land

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Policy integration is a substantive and innovative strategy, used to address complex problems that go beyond the scope of sectoral policies, and require a joint and integrated response. While theoretical advances have been made in the field, there have not been many empirical proposals of a comparative nature. This paper develops a proposal for the analysis of integrality in the domain of urban policies, in which the integrated strategy has become a key component. Following a literature review, three dimensions were defined, referring to the diagnosis, the action strategy, and the project governance, which have allowed us to examine the presence of an integrated strategy in the designs of the projects developed within the framework of the URBAN and URBANA, initiatives implemented in Spain between 1994 and 2013, promoted by the European Union (EU). The results show that, as occurs in other public policies, the extent of the integrated strategy is limited and varies according to the dimensions. Moreover, the differences found between the two initiatives support the idea that policy integration is a gradual and dynamic process, with a certain learning effect, which develops over time and in which the dimensions of integration do not evolve in a coordinated manner.

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Integrality in the Design of Urban Development Plans. Analysis of the Initiatives Promoted by the EU in Spain

Dorado-Rubín

Guerrero-Mayo

Navarro

2021

Land

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“…In a context of limited funding for housing policies and urban rehabilitation (Alves, 2016), and of increasing pressure by property developers, business elites, and investors to accommodate tourism-related activities rather than permanent housing, the creation of the SRU model in 2004 led to the formation of local governance regimes that supported pro-growth strategies and real-estate development (Navarro & Rodríguez-García, 2015).…”

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Urban rehabilitation, governance, and housing affordability: lessons from Portugal

Branco

Alves

2018

Urban Research & Practice

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This paper examines the role of 'urban rehabilitation societies', a legal and institutional framework launched by the Portuguese government in 2004 and implemented locally ever since. The paper discusses how this model has provided an alibi for neoliberal narratives, grounded on the virtues of the market and on market-oriented strategies. The research methodology uses a combination of qualitative documentary analysis and face-to-face interviews with government officials and public officers to scrutinize the effects of policies on issues of governance and housing affordability.

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“…In this process, coalitions can develop into consolidated urban regimes by maximising opportunities and minimising the liabilities imposed by institutional systems and social structures, or acting in ways that contribute to disrupting and transforming structural and institutional forces. In doing so they often compete with other coalitions in the multiple circuits of power constituting urban governance (Blanco, 2015; Navarro and Rodriguez-Garcia, 2015).…”

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Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela

Bua

Davies

2022

Urban Studies

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New municipalism in Spain arose from a major political wave, now in a period of crisis and electoral retreat. This paper applies a regime-theoretic framework to analyse new municipalist governance in two smaller city cases: A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela. It argues that whilst new municipalist electoral victories inaugurated a crisis for established regimes, the crucial weakness was that they did not consolidate new urban regimes. Municipalists faced severe governability challenges linked to the enduring power of older urban regimes. The paper suggests that this is explained by problems in establishing regime incumbency, the consolidation of the necessary governing capacity by a resource coalition to deliver its agenda and succeed politically. Although established regimes were weakened enough to lose elections, they maintained considerable capacity to constrain the municipalist project and shape urban governance, a significant degree of incumbency. This ultimately enabled them to recover office in 2019. We argue that a critical regime-theoretical perspective assists in understanding the wider crisis of Spanish municipalism and the multi-scalar struggle for hegemony as it plays out in the local state arena.

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Models of local governing coalitions: city politics and policy effects in Spanish municipalities

Cited by 13 publications

References 53 publications

Integrality in the Design of Urban Development Plans. Analysis of the Initiatives Promoted by the EU in Spain

Integrality in the Design of Urban Development Plans. Analysis of the Initiatives Promoted by the EU in Spain

Urban rehabilitation, governance, and housing affordability: lessons from Portugal

Understanding the crisis of New Municipalism in Spain: The struggle for urban regime power in A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela

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