City Leadership in Global Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12430802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michele Acuto (0000-0003-4320-0531, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481-498 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1075-2846 • E-ISSN: 1942-6720 |
| Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1163/19426720-01903008 |
| OpenAlex | W160303866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
| References cited | 5 |
The international society's lack of leadership is often blamed for many of the shortcomings in addressing global challenges. Yet this focus might have been on the wrong kind of leaders: rather than heads of state and diplomats, effective international responses might be better situated with the ordinary influence of city leaders. While capable of reaching beyond urban politics and developing transnational networks, mayors might represent a key hinge for the effective response to important challenges like climate change or sustainability. Against this scholarly oversight, this article demonstrates how mayors have a catalytic influence in global governance. Providing evidence of that role, it summarizes this agency through five nonexclusive features: regime promotion, governance hybridization, diplomatic entrepreneurship, normative mediation, and everyday international influence. Relying on the vast variety of city-led initiatives spawned in the past few decades, this article demands greater attention for t
Accountability · Agency (philosophy · Corporate governance · Economics · Global governance · Management · Mediation · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Public relations · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · E-Government and Public Services · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Urban partnerships in low-carbon development
Human Rights at the Intersections
Why leadership of public leadership research matters
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise
What Difference do Mayors Make? The Role of Municipal Authorities in Turkey and Lebanon’s Response to Syrian Refugees
Overcoming gridlock? The role of city networks in transnational cooperation on climate mitigation
The diverse cities of global urban climate governance
Las Ciudades Como Actores de las Relaciones Internacionales
The Domestic Sources of City Diplomacy
Leadership in, of, and for smart cities – case studies from Europe, America, and Australia
Pragmatism or idealism? An urban perspective onto the politics of interurban cooperation for sustainability in the EU
From Local Action to Global Influence
Relational city actorness in global migration governance
African city diplomacy in global climate mobility debates
Mudança global do clima as cidades no Antropoceno
Ten years after Copenhagen
What do International City Networks Contribute to Global Governance? Towards a Better Conceptual and Empirical Assessment
Exploring the economic case for climate action in cities
Engaging in and with complexity
Las ciudades en la gobernanza global multinivel
Geopolitics of the knowledge-based economy
Actually existing state entrepreneurialism
Municipal statecraft
Innovating urban governance
Bloomberg's Global Mayoralty
Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future
The city” as developmental justification
What can city leaders do for climate change? Insights from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group network
Local Authorities Acting Globally for Sustainable Development
Place-based leadership
Smart urbanism in Africa
Covid-19 and the proliferation of urban networks for health security
Climate smart cities? Technologies of climate governance in Brazil
Explaining emission reductions in cities
Local leadership «beyond city hall»
The city as actor in UN frameworks
Varieties of urban entrepreneurialism
Between Club Diplomacy and Network Diplomacy
Multilateralism Restored? City Diplomacy | in the Covid-19 Era
Reforming local public finance to reduce resource consumption
Hiroshima and Nagasaki as models of city diplomacy
Global urban climate governance in three and a half parts
Digital city diplomacy and international cities networks
Rebels Leading London
You can’t Google everything’
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing the “Interstate System”
Feature town development for inclusive urban development? The case of the Jadeware Feature Town in Yangzhou, China
African agency in transnational city networks
The politics of urban governance in sub-Saharan Africa
Cities and climate change mitigation
Big city mayors
Revisiting urban governance in China
Temporary projects, durable outcomes
The water-energy-food nexus
Toronto and São Paulo
World cities of the global south
Analysing the Asymmetry in Decentralised International Co-operation
Competition through Interurban Policy Making
The Ashura Assemblage
| Unique citing works | 59 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |