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Cities in search of freedom : European municipalities against the leviathan / Elisabetta Mocca.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mocca, Elisabetta, author.
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal home rule--Europe.
- Municipal home rule.
- Local government--State supervision--Europe.
- Local government.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 145 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This analysis of the central state's weakening authority over cities bridges political geography and politics, giving a new perspective to students and researchers in urban studies, geography and political science.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Cities In Search of Freedom: European Municipalities against the Leviathan
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction
- The unit of analysis: which cities?
- The double nature of cities
- Of cities, states and beyond
- About this book
- 2 The Ebbs and Flows of Cities as Political Actors
- Introduction
- An evolutionary perspective of municipal autonomy
- The municipal roots of the European political geography: a historical sketch
- The Middle Ages
- The early modern period
- The late modern period: the 19th and 20th centuries
- The fortunes of cities in the contemporary period
- Conclusion
- 3 The Persistence of Urban Identity in the Global World
- The global-local duality
- Cities in the global flow
- The resilience of the urban and the persistence of local identity
- 4 Fleeing the State
- The loosening of the central-local relations
- EU opportunity structures
- Decentralisation reforms and municipal agency
- Paradiplomacy as a means for municipal self-determination
- The soft power of influence
- Paradiplomacy as latent contention
- 5 The Municipalisation of the European Political Space
- Between theory and praxis
- The conceptual morphology of European municipalism as ideology
- Core concepts
- Municipal self-government
- Mutuality and universalism
- Europeanism
- Coterminous concepts
- State and market
- Participation and elitism
- The perimeter
- 6 Civitas Activa: The Mobilising Potential of Cities
- The political and political action
- The political as conflict
- The political as deliberation
- The urban and the political
- Civitas activa: issues of initiation and activation
- Civitas activa in the polis: a recipe against political apathy?.
- 7 A Municipal Way Out?
- The fragmentation of authority and the faltering state sovereignty
- Fighting the Leviathan: municipal statecraft
- Will cities rescue the EU?
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781529216356
- 1529216354
- 9781529216332
- 1529216338
- 9781529216349
- 1529216346
- OCLC:
- 1385452402
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