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Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change?
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? Regional Studies. Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public action and enhance the effectiveness of uprisings. Second, cities may increase the demand for democracy relative to dictatorship. Third, cities may engender the development of ‘civic capital’ which enables citizens to improve their own institutions. History and empirics provide significant support for the first channel, but less evidence exists for the others. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion.
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change?
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? Regional Studies. Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public action and enhance the effectiveness of uprisings. Second, cities may increase the demand for democracy relative to dictatorship. Third, cities may engender the development of ‘civic capital’ which enables citizens to improve their own institutions. History and empirics provide significant support for the first channel, but less evidence exists for the others. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion.
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change?
Glaeser, Edward L. (author) / Steinberg, Bryce Millett (author)
Regional Studies ; 51 ; 58-68
2017-01-02
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
cities , democratization , agglomeration , 城市；民主化；聚集 , grandes villes , démocratisation , agglomération , Städte , Demokratisierung , Ballung , ciudades , democratización , aglomeración , N10 , R10 , R28
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change?
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