Jefferey M Sellers
Biographic Data
| ID | 114744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jefferey M Sellers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jefferey M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sellers |
| SIGNATURE | SELLERS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0782-880X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflections on “Re-Placing the Nation”
Multilevel Democracy: How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State
This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive local institutions that integrate national and local governance make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world, early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of elites. In Anglo-American and Swiss democracies, state forma…
From Within to Between Nations: Subnational Comparison across Borders
Long a staple in the toolkit of American politics, comparison among subnational territorial units has gained increasing currency in comparative politics. A growing portion of subnational research, especially in the monographic literature, employs comparisons of subnational territorial units within different countries. This approach to comparison, which I term transnational comparison, has the potential to build on and extend the advantages of sub…
Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis: Place Equality Regimes and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries
This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence
Métropolisation, intercommunalité et inégalités sociospatiales
Cet article cherche à répondre à deux questions. Quelle est l'intensité des inégalités sociospatiales dans les agglomérations urbaines françaises ? Les politiques publiques contribuent-elles à contenir, à contrarier, ou, à l'inverse, à amplifier ces inégalités ? Concernant la première question, que l'on prenne les écarts entre revenus des ménages ou les écarts entre revenus des communes au sein des communautés urbaines, l'image globale qui ressor…
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
State and Society in Local Governance: Lessons from a Multilevel Comparison
A generation of literature on local governance has established it to be largely a matter of relations between society and the local state. Existing typologies of national infrastructures for local governance, however, have neglected national variations in the shape of civil society to focus exclusively on governmental institutions. In this article we propose a new typology of national infrastructures of local governance that takes the structure o…
Urban Governance and Democracy: Leadership and Community Involvement – Edited by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt, and Murray Stewart Legitimacy and Urban Governance: A Cross‐National Comparative Study – …
A global comparative analysis of urban form: Applying spatial metrics and remote sensing
The Urban Response to Internationalization , by Peter Karl Kresl and Earl H. Fry
Decentralization, Local Government, and the Welfare State
Despite growing interest in decentralized governance, the local government systems that comprise the most common element of decentralization around the world have received little systematic attention. This article, drawing on the first systematic index of decentralization to local government in 21 countries, demonstrates a close relation between Social Democratic welfare states and an intergovernmental infrastructure that in important respects ra…
Globalization, the Developmental State and the Politics of Urban Growth in Korea: A Multilevel Analysis
This article explores the politics of urban growth in a transitional society. Korea, which is experiencing rapid industrialization, urbanization and democratic transition exemplifies a set of conditions that may seem to favor the emergence of an urban growth politics and business-led growth coalition much like that found in urban areas at the time of industrialization, and still prevalent in much of the US and other western democracies today. Yet…
Re-Placing the Nation: An Agenda for Comparative Urban Politics
As the world becomes more urbanized and the significance of governance and politics within cities and regions grows, comparative urban analysis has an increasingly prominent role to play in the comparative study of politics and policy. Realizing this potential requires a conceptualization of national institutions, societies, and cultures that does justice to both the persistence of the national and the influence of local and regional agents and s…
The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond
The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond. By Daniel Kelemen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 256p. $49.95.In this engaging, clearly written volume, Daniel Kelemen synthesizes and elaborates a theoretical model that contributes to several literatures. As a study of the European Union, it stands at the logical endpoint of a growing trend toward the application of analytical tools drawn from c…
Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy
Throughout the world more policy making and the politics that shape it take place in the urban regions where most people live. This book draws on eleven case studies of similar but disparate urban regions in France, Germany and the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s. It documents the growth of this urban governance and develops a pioneering analysis of its causes and consequences. It traces the origins to the expansion and devolution of po…
The Nation-State and Urban Governance: Toward Multilevel Analysis
In recent international comparative studies of urban governance, the nation-state has usually figured as a direct influence on local government and politics. This article, drawing on case studies of a similar U.S. city and German city, demonstrates the need for a new, more sophisticated conception of the effects from national institutions. In the German city, a pro-business coalition carried out extensive social and environmental policies. In the…
Public Goods and the Politics of Segregation: An Analysis and Cross-National Comparison
Despite the persistent inequality of advanced industrial society, traditional class politics has receded as an influence on policy. One reason stems from the divergent ways consumption and property interests linked to residence qualify the support of privileged citizens for policies to provide public goods. My analysis of these spatial influences focuses on localized provision of urban environmental amenities in nine midsized urban service center…
Place, post‐industrial change and the new left
This article argues for the importance of place and policies addressed to it in recent post–industrial political transformations. My analysis focuses on the performance of Left parties in French and German cities with universities since the 1960s. Despite similar shifts in the occupational and sectoral bases of politics in the cities of both countries, these transformations followed divergent trajectories. In Germany decentralized policymaking, p…
Norms in the politics of housing for minorities: Evidence from a French, a German and a US metropolitan area
Throughout Western societies, policy-makers who address the problems of disadvantaged ethnic and immigrant minorities confront norms that prescribe equal or preferential treatment for these groups. Variations in these norms make significant differences in policy-making. Based on evidence from housing and planning policies and a standardized survey of local élites in comparable German, French and US metropolitan areas, this article analyses how th…
Litigation as a Local Political Resource: Courts in Controversies over Land Use in France, Germany, and the United States
In western Europe as well as in the United States, litigation often operates as a means of political contestation. This article draws on a study of land use disputes in similar U.S., French, and west German metropolitan areas to analyze cross-national differences in the way local political actors employ courts. More an extension of pluralist policymaking patterns in the United States, political litigation in the European settings occurs as part o…
Decentralization, Local Government, and the Welfare State
Despite growing interest in decentralized governance, the local government systems that comprise the most common element of decentralization around the world have received little systematic attention. This article, drawing on the first systematic index of decentralization to local government in 21 countries, demonstrates a close relation between Social Democratic welfare states and an intergovernmental infrastructure that in important respects ra…
Re-Placing the Nation: An Agenda for Comparative Urban Politics
As the world becomes more urbanized and the significance of governance and politics within cities and regions grows, comparative urban analysis has an increasingly prominent role to play in the comparative study of politics and policy. Realizing this potential requires a conceptualization of national institutions, societies, and cultures that does justice to both the persistence of the national and the influence of local and regional agents and s…
The Nation-State and Urban Governance: Toward Multilevel Analysis
In recent international comparative studies of urban governance, the nation-state has usually figured as a direct influence on local government and politics. This article, drawing on case studies of a similar U.S. city and German city, demonstrates the need for a new, more sophisticated conception of the effects from national institutions. In the German city, a pro-business coalition carried out extensive social and environmental policies. In the…
From Within to Between Nations: Subnational Comparison across Borders
Long a staple in the toolkit of American politics, comparison among subnational territorial units has gained increasing currency in comparative politics. A growing portion of subnational research, especially in the monographic literature, employs comparisons of subnational territorial units within different countries. This approach to comparison, which I term transnational comparison, has the potential to build on and extend the advantages of sub…
Globalization, the Developmental State and the Politics of Urban Growth in Korea: A Multilevel Analysis
This article explores the politics of urban growth in a transitional society. Korea, which is experiencing rapid industrialization, urbanization and democratic transition exemplifies a set of conditions that may seem to favor the emergence of an urban growth politics and business-led growth coalition much like that found in urban areas at the time of industrialization, and still prevalent in much of the US and other western democracies today. Yet…
Litigation as a Local Political Resource: Courts in Controversies over Land Use in France, Germany, and the United States
In western Europe as well as in the United States, litigation often operates as a means of political contestation. This article draws on a study of land use disputes in similar U.S., French, and west German metropolitan areas to analyze cross-national differences in the way local political actors employ courts. More an extension of pluralist policymaking patterns in the United States, political litigation in the European settings occurs as part o…
State and Society in Local Governance: Lessons from a Multilevel Comparison
A generation of literature on local governance has established it to be largely a matter of relations between society and the local state. Existing typologies of national infrastructures for local governance, however, have neglected national variations in the shape of civil society to focus exclusively on governmental institutions. In this article we propose a new typology of national infrastructures of local governance that takes the structure o…
Métropolisation, intercommunalité et inégalités sociospatiales
Cet article cherche à répondre à deux questions. Quelle est l'intensité des inégalités sociospatiales dans les agglomérations urbaines françaises ? Les politiques publiques contribuent-elles à contenir, à contrarier, ou, à l'inverse, à amplifier ces inégalités ? Concernant la première question, que l'on prenne les écarts entre revenus des ménages ou les écarts entre revenus des communes au sein des communautés urbaines, l'image globale qui ressor…
Public Goods and the Politics of Segregation: An Analysis and Cross-National Comparison
Despite the persistent inequality of advanced industrial society, traditional class politics has receded as an influence on policy. One reason stems from the divergent ways consumption and property interests linked to residence qualify the support of privileged citizens for policies to provide public goods. My analysis of these spatial influences focuses on localized provision of urban environmental amenities in nine midsized urban service center…
Place, post‐industrial change and the new left
This article argues for the importance of place and policies addressed to it in recent post–industrial political transformations. My analysis focuses on the performance of Left parties in French and German cities with universities since the 1960s. Despite similar shifts in the occupational and sectoral bases of politics in the cities of both countries, these transformations followed divergent trajectories. In Germany decentralized policymaking, p…
Urban Governance and Democracy: Leadership and Community Involvement – Edited by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt, and Murray Stewart Legitimacy and Urban Governance: A Cross‐National Comparative Study – …
Norms in the politics of housing for minorities: Evidence from a French, a German and a US metropolitan area
Throughout Western societies, policy-makers who address the problems of disadvantaged ethnic and immigrant minorities confront norms that prescribe equal or preferential treatment for these groups. Variations in these norms make significant differences in policy-making. Based on evidence from housing and planning policies and a standardized survey of local élites in comparable German, French and US metropolitan areas, this article analyses how th…
The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond
The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond. By Daniel Kelemen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 256p. $49.95.In this engaging, clearly written volume, Daniel Kelemen synthesizes and elaborates a theoretical model that contributes to several literatures. As a study of the European Union, it stands at the logical endpoint of a growing trend toward the application of analytical tools drawn from c…
Litigation as a Local Political Resource: Courts in Controversies over Land Use in France, Germany, and the United States
In western Europe as well as in the United States, litigation often operates as a means of political contestation. This article draws on a study of land use disputes in similar U.S., French, and west German metropolitan areas to analyze cross-national differences in the way local political actors employ courts. More an extension of pluralist policymaking patterns in the United States, political litigation in the European settings occurs as part o…
Norms in the politics of housing for minorities: Evidence from a French, a German and a US metropolitan area
Throughout Western societies, policy-makers who address the problems of disadvantaged ethnic and immigrant minorities confront norms that prescribe equal or preferential treatment for these groups. Variations in these norms make significant differences in policy-making. Based on evidence from housing and planning policies and a standardized survey of local élites in comparable German, French and US metropolitan areas, this article analyses how th…
Place, post‐industrial change and the new left
This article argues for the importance of place and policies addressed to it in recent post–industrial political transformations. My analysis focuses on the performance of Left parties in French and German cities with universities since the 1960s. Despite similar shifts in the occupational and sectoral bases of politics in the cities of both countries, these transformations followed divergent trajectories. In Germany decentralized policymaking, p…
Public Goods and the Politics of Segregation: An Analysis and Cross-National Comparison
Despite the persistent inequality of advanced industrial society, traditional class politics has receded as an influence on policy. One reason stems from the divergent ways consumption and property interests linked to residence qualify the support of privileged citizens for policies to provide public goods. My analysis of these spatial influences focuses on localized provision of urban environmental amenities in nine midsized urban service center…
Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy
Throughout the world more policy making and the politics that shape it take place in the urban regions where most people live. This book draws on eleven case studies of similar but disparate urban regions in France, Germany and the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s. It documents the growth of this urban governance and develops a pioneering analysis of its causes and consequences. It traces the origins to the expansion and devolution of po…
The Nation-State and Urban Governance: Toward Multilevel Analysis
In recent international comparative studies of urban governance, the nation-state has usually figured as a direct influence on local government and politics. This article, drawing on case studies of a similar U.S. city and German city, demonstrates the need for a new, more sophisticated conception of the effects from national institutions. In the German city, a pro-business coalition carried out extensive social and environmental policies. In the…
Re-Placing the Nation: An Agenda for Comparative Urban Politics
As the world becomes more urbanized and the significance of governance and politics within cities and regions grows, comparative urban analysis has an increasingly prominent role to play in the comparative study of politics and policy. Realizing this potential requires a conceptualization of national institutions, societies, and cultures that does justice to both the persistence of the national and the influence of local and regional agents and s…
The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond
The Rules of Federalism: Institutions and Regulatory Politics in the EU and Beyond. By Daniel Kelemen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 256p. $49.95.In this engaging, clearly written volume, Daniel Kelemen synthesizes and elaborates a theoretical model that contributes to several literatures. As a study of the European Union, it stands at the logical endpoint of a growing trend toward the application of analytical tools drawn from c…
A global comparative analysis of urban form: Applying spatial metrics and remote sensing
The Urban Response to Internationalization , by Peter Karl Kresl and Earl H. Fry
Decentralization, Local Government, and the Welfare State
Despite growing interest in decentralized governance, the local government systems that comprise the most common element of decentralization around the world have received little systematic attention. This article, drawing on the first systematic index of decentralization to local government in 21 countries, demonstrates a close relation between Social Democratic welfare states and an intergovernmental infrastructure that in important respects ra…
Globalization, the Developmental State and the Politics of Urban Growth in Korea: A Multilevel Analysis
This article explores the politics of urban growth in a transitional society. Korea, which is experiencing rapid industrialization, urbanization and democratic transition exemplifies a set of conditions that may seem to favor the emergence of an urban growth politics and business-led growth coalition much like that found in urban areas at the time of industrialization, and still prevalent in much of the US and other western democracies today. Yet…
Urban Governance and Democracy: Leadership and Community Involvement – Edited by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt, and Murray Stewart Legitimacy and Urban Governance: A Cross‐National Comparative Study – …
State and Society in Local Governance: Lessons from a Multilevel Comparison
A generation of literature on local governance has established it to be largely a matter of relations between society and the local state. Existing typologies of national infrastructures for local governance, however, have neglected national variations in the shape of civil society to focus exclusively on governmental institutions. In this article we propose a new typology of national infrastructures of local governance that takes the structure o…
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis: Place Equality Regimes and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries
This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence
Métropolisation, intercommunalité et inégalités sociospatiales
Cet article cherche à répondre à deux questions. Quelle est l'intensité des inégalités sociospatiales dans les agglomérations urbaines françaises ? Les politiques publiques contribuent-elles à contenir, à contrarier, ou, à l'inverse, à amplifier ces inégalités ? Concernant la première question, que l'on prenne les écarts entre revenus des ménages ou les écarts entre revenus des communes au sein des communautés urbaines, l'image globale qui ressor…
From Within to Between Nations: Subnational Comparison across Borders
Long a staple in the toolkit of American politics, comparison among subnational territorial units has gained increasing currency in comparative politics. A growing portion of subnational research, especially in the monographic literature, employs comparisons of subnational territorial units within different countries. This approach to comparison, which I term transnational comparison, has the potential to build on and extend the advantages of sub…
Multilevel Democracy: How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State
This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive local institutions that integrate national and local governance make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world, early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of elites. In Anglo-American and Swiss democracies, state forma…
Reflections on “Re-Placing the Nation”
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