Digaetano, Alan

Urban governance and industrial decline: governing structures and policy agendas in Birmingham and Sheffield, England, and Detroit, Michigan, 1980-1997 - 1999 - p.546-77 - Mar

There has been a marked increase in comparative research examining the dynamics of regime formation in the United Kingdom and the United States. These authors consider regime formation processes in three deindustrializing cities: Detroit, Michigan, and Birmingham and Sheffield, England. The article identifies two cross-cutting themes: the effects of national/international political and economic forces on local governance and the role of public and private interactions in regime formation. Finally, in an attempt to enlarge the scope of regime theory, the authors develop a comparative perspective on urban governance based on the concepts of governing structures and policy agendas. - Reproduced


Urban development - United States
Urban development - Great Britain
Local government - United States
Local government - Great Britain
Local government