Title Cities in Search of Freedom : European Municipalities Against the Leviathan / Elisabetta Mocca

Published Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (151 p.) 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 -- Introduction -- The global-local duality -- Cities in the global flow -- The resilience of the urban and the persistence of local identity -- Conclusion -- 4 Fleeing the State -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion 5 The Municipalisation of the European Political Space -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 6 Civitas Activa: The Mobilising Potential of Cities -- Introduction -- 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? -- Introduction -- The fragmentation of authority and the faltering state sovereignty -- Fighting the Leviathan: municipal statecraft -- Will cities rescue the EU? -- Notes -- References -- Index 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 Analysis Local Government Political Science Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 13, 2023) Subject Municipal home rule -- Europe Local government -- State supervision -- Europe SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. Local government -- State supervision Municipal home rule Europe Form Electronic book ISBN 9781529216349 1529216346

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