Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution

Why do some urban governing regimes realize a more equal distribution of public goods than others? Local government interventions in São Paulo, Brazil, have produced surprisingly effective redistribution residential — housing and sanitation between 1989 2016. I use original interviews archival research for comparative-historical analysis variation across time Paulo’s governance sanitation. argue that sequential configurations a) “embeddedness” the local state civil society b) “cohesion” institutional sphere state, explain why when generate coordinating capacity to distribute on programmatic basis. further illustrate how these can world.