Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy
Term Limits and the Modern Era of Municipal Reform
1st Edition
By Douglas Cantor
October 26, 2025
Term limits enjoy broad popularity among Americans, yet scholarly literature has omitted two important questions from the study of municipal reform: Why are term limits so popular, and what are the causes of movements for term limits? In this book, Douglas Cantor exposes the causes of term limits ...
Local Governments’ Financial Vulnerability: Analysing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Emanuele Padovani, Eric Scorsone, Silvia Iacuzzi, Simone Valle de Souza
September 25, 2023
Local Governments’ Financial Vulnerability presents a conceptual framework developed to examine how vulnerable local finances were before and in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by mapping and systematising its dimensions and sources. The model is then applied to eight ...
Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Ayda Eraydin, Klaus Frey
September 30, 2020
Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in contemporary planning and governance. While the theoretical debates on post-politics and the wider frame of post-foundational political theory provide ...
The Risk of Regional Governance: Cultural Theory and Interlocal Cooperation
1st Edition
By Thomas Skuzinski
July 16, 2019
Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of ...
Local Politics and Mayoral Elections in 21st Century America: The Keys to City Hall
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin
December 05, 2016
Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013. Open contests in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, for example, offer laboratories to examine electoral trends in urban politics. Cities are facing varied predicaments. Boston was rocked by the bombing of the...
Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe
1st Edition
By Mary Manjikian
June 23, 2015
Housing is no longer about having a place to live – but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices of surveillance and security. Breaking new ground in the field of urban politics and international relations, Securitization of Property Squatting in ...
The Cultural Contradictions of Progressive Politics: The Role of Cultural Change and the Global Economy in Local Policymaking
1st Edition
By Donald Rosdil
November 10, 2014
Why do some U.S. cities like Seattle and Boston impose social exactions and sustainability targets on private investment while others like Las Vegas and Houston offer property tax and fee remissions to business, tolerate environmentally hazardous activities such as oil drilling, and express ...