Racialised postsocialist governance in Romania’s urban margins

Transnational Forces and Corporate Governance Regulation in Postsocialist Europe

This dissertation provides an analysis of the influence of transnational forces on the mode and content of corporate governance regulation in East Central Europe since the collapse of state socialism. From the early 1990s onwards countries in this region have gone through a process of economic restructuring aimed at the establishment of liberal market economies. Transnational actors such as the...

Good Governance and Urban Management

The pattern of governance is a new topic which has found its traces in urban management, and has the features of continuance, decision making, justice, efficiency, effectiveness, clarity, accountability, partnership, and immunity, all of which are interdependent and empowering. According to this pattern, decisions about civil affairs are taken with the cooperation of government, private sectors...

Urban Governance of Disease

Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the paradigm for public health interventions in the 21st century, creating new approaches that take urban determinants of health into consideration. The widening disparity between the urban poor and the urban rich further exacerbates health inequities. Existing tools for global governanc...

Urban Governance , Competition , and Welfare

The market mechanism of spatial resource allocation is examined in a system of cities, where social welfare depends on city size. The competitive dynamics of the system is a product of the interplay between people’s individual exit type choices (migration) and their collective voice type choices (urban governance). It is shown that the use of efficiency enhancing measures of urban governance de...

New Challenges for Urban Governance