Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy

Lauria, Mickey

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“…The politics of urban development and interurban competition have been the focus of a great deal of scholarship in urban studies in recent decades (Cochrane, 1999;Cochrane et al, 1996;Cox, 1999;Cox and Mair, 1988;Hall and Hubbard, 1998;Jonas and Wilson, 1999a;Lauria, 1997;Logan and Molotch, 1987;Peck, 1995;Peck and Tickell, 1995). Over time, there has been an increasing attention to the role discourse and representation play in framing and facilitating the activities of urban growth coalitions (Boyle, 1999;Jessop, 1997;Jonas and Wilson, 1999b).…”

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confidence: 99%

'Best Places': Interurban Competition, Quality of Life and Popular Media Discourse

2004

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Summary. This paper explores relationships between the politics of urban competitiveness and popular media discourse about the 'good life' and 'good places'. Specifically, it focuses on the influence of popular 'best places to live' rankings on urban policy in three US cities. It addresses two issues: how and why similar policies are transferred from place to place; and, how 'extra-economic' factors are mobilised in formulating local economic development policy. It argues that the media's role in these processes is understudied and that its normative discourse is powerful and political. This argument is influenced by and illustrative of a recent attempt to locate the study of discursive power much more centrally in political economy approaches to urban studies.

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'Best Places': Interurban Competition, Quality of Life and Popular Media Discourse

2004

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“…The external causal factors vary, but generally referred to the contexts that the studied regime is related to or embedded in, namely the socio-cultural, economic, and political environments (DiGaetano and Klemanski, 1993;Stone, 1989). It is at this point that the regime concept receives much criticism, for both the international regime and urban regime literature implies a general neglect of the context in regime (trans)formation Lauria, 1997;Mossberger and Stoker, 2001;Ward, 1996), though some research do acknowledge the socio-cultural, economic, and political factors at work (Collins, 2008;Stone, 1993;Tretter, 2008).…”

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“…Originating in a political economy frame, a regime is conceptualised as an autonomous force that mediates between basic causal factors and outcomes (Stone, 1993). However, its applications indicate a strong focus on the analysis of internal dynamics at the expense of that of external factors Lauria, 1997;Mossberger and Stoker, 2001;Tretter, 2008;Ward, 1996). By examining both the broader setting and the internal dynamics which have shaped China's tourism development, this paper hopes to narrow the gap.…”

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Tourism development in China since 1949: a regime perspective

Vanneste

Borg

2016

IJTP

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The People's Republic of China has experienced great economic, political and socio-cultural changes since its founding in 1949, which in turn have considerably impacted every aspect of the Chinese society. Adopting a regime perspective, the paper discusses China's tourism development against these backdrops, with an aim to disentangle the relation between tourism development and the broader context. In the light of the heritage-tourism-urban development strategy today, a special attention is given to tourism's (non)interaction with heritage and urban development, to examine the impact of the (lack of) internal dynamics on their development paths. In its attempt to answer the questions of 'why' and 'what' in China's tourism development, the paper aims to provide a panoramic view of the topic and the unique dialogism among tourism development, heritage conservation and urban development that underlines the appropriation and practice of tourism and heritage in contemporary China.

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“…To remedy this analytical deficit, McManus introduces neopluralist concepts of political power as an intermediary between the abstraction of the regulation approach and the detail of everyday environmental politics in British Columbia and New South Wales. In this respect, McManus activates regulationist concepts to investigate the concrete institutions and politics of local resource governance in a manner that resonates with neo-Gramscian approaches to the regulation of urban political regimes (see Lauria, 1997). He suggests that a process of political adjustment has taken place whereby the institutional politics and management practices of timber extraction (which constitute the mode of social regulation) have changed substantially to reflect and co-opt the language of sustainable development.…”

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Governing Nature: The Reregulation of Resource Access, Production, and Consumption

Bridge¹,

Jonas²

2002

Environ Plan A

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Recent developments in political economy have highlighted the institutional nature of economic processes. Researchers using urban regime theory, for example, have grappled with the role of political coalitions in governing the form and rate of urban growth. Working at a different analytical and spatial scale, regulationists have called attention to the role of extra-economic processes in providing coherence to national and regional economies. These two literatures contain significant differences and should not necessarily be regarded as commensurate (see various contributions in Lauria, 1997). Yet both are representative of an`institutional turn' within economic geography that has encouraged the revival of`new regionalist' analyses of the relationships between institutional capacities, new forms of governance, and regional economic development (see, inter

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Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy

Cited by 244 publications

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'Best Places': Interurban Competition, Quality of Life and Popular Media Discourse

'Best Places': Interurban Competition, Quality of Life and Popular Media Discourse

Tourism development in China since 1949: a regime perspective

Governing Nature: The Reregulation of Resource Access, Production, and Consumption

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