Cover; Contents; Chapter 1 -- The New Localism: Local Politics in a Global Era; Chapter 2 -- The State Reassessed: The Privatization of Local Politics; Chapter 3 -- Local Authorities and Economic Development in Britain; Chapter 4 -- Birmingham: Political Restructuring, Economic Change, and the Civic Gospel; Chapter 5 -- Local Government in Poland: Political Failure and Economic Success; Chapter 6 -- Market as Pressure or Market as Possibility?: The Framework of Local Economic Development in Hungary
Chapter 7 -- Regimes of Accumulation, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and Export Processing Zones: Scales of Influence on Caribbean DevelopmentChapter 8 -- Local Institutions and Development: The Nigerian Experience; Chapter 9 -- Political Restructuring and the Development Process in Kenya; Chapter 10 -- The New Localism From a Cross-National Perspective; Index; About the Authors
Summary
How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made to counterbalance the new emphasis on world interests? Comprehensive and timely, this book answers these and other vital questions by exploring local political restructuring in the face of massive global economic change
