Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and Institutional Capacity

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ID20072823
AuthorsPatsy Healey, Göran Cars, Ali Madanipour (0000-0002-9083-146X), Claudio De Magalhães (0000-0003-4526-8476)
Year2017
Pages6-28
Publication date2017-11-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueUrban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315202877-2
OpenAlexW2530423897
ISBN9781315202877
LanguageEN
Citations received31

In this Chapter, the authors outline their own approach to the analysis of institutional capacity and institutional capacity building processes in urban governance, within a broadly 'constructivist' institutionalist frame of reference. They argue that creating the capacity for collective action in a dynamic, dispersed power context is a challenging enterprise. Socio-cultural changes have co-evolved with these economic developments, diversifying lifestyles and lifecycle dynamics, generating new material demands on urban governments and altering the configurations of values with which citizens judge their representatives. Instances of governance action, in this relational viewpoint, reveal the complex interplay of multiple forces, made active through micro-social relations which themselves generate processes of invention in response to the complexity of situations in which actors find themselves. In any interactive instance, maybe the development of a new policy, or the work of an urban regeneration partnership, a range of geographical and institutional referents may be called up as actions are designed which will impact on particular localities

Business · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Institutional analysis · Institutional change · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Public Administration · Finance

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