Cities and Politics in the Developing World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison E Post (0000-0002-8962-6047, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-133 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-042716-102405 |
| OpenAlex | W2802071802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 102 |
The last 20 years have witnessed an impressive outpouring of comparative politics research examining urban politics in the developing world. This research advances our understanding of phenomena such as clientelism, law and order, and local public goods provision. Scholarship could be strengthened, however, through more careful attention to how the urban setting of this research affects the politics examined. This article proposes two distinct ways in which urban politics can be conceptualized: politics taking place in urban agglomerations, characterized by large, diverse populations settled at high densities; or politics taking place within the boundaries of city jurisdictions, possessing legal powers and responsibilities distinct from those at other tiers of government or in rural areas. Adopting either of these conceptualizations illuminates new avenues for empirical work, theoretical innovation, and improved measurement. This article also shows that recent scholarship has neglected important, and fundamentally political, topics such as urban political economy, land markets, and environmental harms. Engaging with these areas would allow political scientists to revisit classic questions regarding the institutional influences on economic growth, the politics of redistribution, and the determinants of collective action
Clientelism · Collective action · Democracy · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Redistribution (election · Scholarship · Sociology · Urban agglomeration · Urban politics · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Taxation and Compliance Studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
The real estate turn in the slum
Too complex to collaborate? Rethinking CSO–municipal relations for public service provision
Demanding Development
Beyond Chicago
Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics
Gobernar los autobuses públicos en la Ciudad de México
Aerial Video Surveillance in a Megacity
The Rise of Local Politics
Everyday politics and sustainable urban development in the Global South
What political institutions support Bus Rapid Transit? Evidence from a survival analysis of 92 cities in low- and middle-income countries
À la recherche du politique dans les villes
Reimagining Public Participation in Urban Development
International agencies and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda
Democratizing urban development
The role of institutional entrepreneurs and informal land transactions in Mexico City’s urban expansion
Political change in African cities
Social order in Sweden's politicized and vulnerable neighborhoods – The perspective of residents
Luang Prabang
Do grids demobilize? How street networks, social networks, and political networks intersect
Informal urbanisation and clientelism
The Most Vulnerable Poor
Multilevel Research Designs
The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America
Urban Social Disorder 3.0
Is (in)access to infrastructure driven by physical delivery or weak governance? Power and knowledge asymmetries in Cape Town, South Africa
Political sources of urban concentration in Latin America
Endogenous Parliaments
The politics of informal settlements in African cities
Why Political Scientists Should Study Smaller Cities
Mayors Unchecked
City Size and Public Service Access
Social, Formal, and Political Determinants of Trade Under Weak Rule of Law
Courting Informal Workers
Do Politicians Discriminate Against Internal Migrants? Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments in India
Exposure and Preferences
Instruments and spaces of waste governance in Lebanon
Instruments et territoires de la gouvernance des déchets au Liban
Ensuring the ordinary
Bogotá's Left Turn
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability
The Violence of Law-and-Order Politics
Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality
How Clients Select Brokers
A Troubled Collaboration
The Bureaucratic Politics of Urban Land Rights
The Rich Have Peers, the Poor Have Patrons
Politics and the migrant poor in Mexico City
The Myth of Marginality
Squatters and oligarchs
Property and Political Order in Africa
Militants and Citizens
Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America
Inventing Local Democracy
Curbing Clientelism in Argentina
City of Walls
Flammable
Governing from Below
Mobilizing Poor Voters
World urbanization prospects
Urban Fortunes
The Urban Transformation of the Developing World
Votes and Violence
Stuck in Place
Barriers to Participation
Politics as a Vocation
Cultures in ConflictSocial Movements and the State in Peru
Environmental Justice in Latin America
Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence In Latin America
Activating Democracy in Brazil
Criminality, Public Security, and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America
Urban Poverty and Party Populism in African Democracies
On Democracy
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
Community Power Structure. A Study of Decision Makers
Cocaine and Parallel Polities in the Brazilian Urban Periphery
Roots of the State
World Development Report 2009
Infrastructure and Metropolitan Reorganization
Business–Government Relations and Industrial Change
Neighborhood Associations and the Urban Poor
Participatory Governance Reform
Governance in the Gullies
Evidence from Lagos on Discrimination across Ethnic and Class Identities in Informal Trade
Can Developing Countries Both Decentralize and Depoliticize Urban Water Services? Evaluating the Legacy of the 1990s Reform Wave
The Impacts of Differential Armed Dominance of Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Violence and Urban Order in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria
National Versus Ethnic Identification in Africa
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Avenues of Participation
The Politics of Order in Informal Markets
Clients and Communities
Collaboration Is Not Enough
Urbanization and Political Change in the Developing World
Is Urban Politics a Black Hole? Analyzing the Boundary Between Political Science and Urban Politics
All Politics Is Local
Hybrid Regimes for Local Public Goods Provision
Who Benefits from Distributive Politics? How the Outcome One Studies Affects the Answer One Gets
How Government Coordination Controlled Organized Crime
Metropolitan Institutions and Policy Coordination
Making it Personal
From Participatory Promises to Partisan Capture
Demand-Based Development and Local Electoral Environments in Mexico
Do Participatory Governance Institutions Matter
Beyond the Machine
Local Ethnic Geography, Expectations of Favoritism, and Voting in Urban Ghana
Disobedient Markets
Buying, Expropriating, and Stealing Votes
The Majority‐Minority Divide in Attitudes toward Internal Migration
Electoral Competition, Participation, and Government Responsiveness in Mexico
Do Rural Migrants Divide Ethnically in the City? Evidence from an Ethnographic Experiment in India
Does Participation Reinforce Patronage? Policy Preferences, Turnout and Class in Urban Ghana
Blame Avoidance and Policy Stability in Developing Democracies
Community Policing and Latin America's Citizen Security Crisis
Poor People's Politics
Scaling Down
The Politics of Urban Violence
The quality of government
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
Gentrifying the State, Gentrifying Participation
Mumbai's Development Mafias
The Social Bases of an Urban Political Machine
Some Social Requisites of Democracy
Vote Buying or Turnout Buying? Machine Politics and the Secret Ballot
Crossing the Line
Forbearance
Does Electoral Competition Exacerbate Interethnic or Interpartisan Economic Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Market Price Bargaining
Paradoxes of Police Reform
Undermining the Rule of Law
Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro
Urbanism as a Way of Life
Informal Institutions and Personal Rule in Urban Ghana
Irregular armed forces, shifting patterns of commitment, and fragmented sovereignty in the developing world
| Unique citing works | 46 |
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| Citations per year | 5,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |