Explaining “Power to

Incubation and Agenda Building in an Urban Regime

Bibliographic Data

ID6405072
AuthorsStefania Ravazzi (0000-0002-6655-1839, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, corresponding author), Silvano Belligni (University of Turin, Turin, Italy)
Year2016
Volume52
Issue3
Pages323-347
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087415598579
OpenAlexW2337234148
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited52

The urban regime theory has placed the decisional power of urban policy makers in the foreground. From this perspective, enduring governing coalitions can in fact manage to change the consolidated urban policy mix to foster great changes in the social and economic context. The urban regime theory labels this capacity “power to.” Although this higher capacity has frequently been affirmed, the literature has neglected to look at the framing mechanisms and the policy-making processes that allow a new agenda to emerge and be implemented. The present article has the aim of addressing this matter and in particular of trying to answer two main questions: (1) If an incubation phase lays the foundations for the emergence of a new policy agenda, how does this process take place? (2) Is the new agenda a by-product of sectorial policy negotiations or is it the output of a collective effort? The findings of an in-depth analysis of a case study are presented and discussed to address these questions

Context (archaeology · Economic system · Economics · Framing (construction · Geography · Law and economics · Negotiation · Political science · Positive economics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Urban planning · Urban policy · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Urban Planning and Governance

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