The Bulletin—November 1, 2012

Cover vol. 9, no.1, February 2012

Belgeo, 1-2 | 2012

The political participation of immigrants is an important gauge of their integration into thereceiving society more generally, as well as an indicator of the degree of openness of politicalelites towards ethnic minorities. With the restructuring of State intervention and the diffusion ofcivic culture, the role that immigrant associations play in shaping urban social policies has...

Belgeo, 1-2 | 2012

Since 2010 Southern Europe has become the epicentre of the second phase of the global economiccrisis that began two years earlier as a consequence of the bursting of the mortgage and financial bubble in the United States. In critical commentaries, this crisis has been understood as a crisis of neoliberalism as a mode of economic-political regulation. In the first part, this paper analyses t...

Belgeo, 1-2 | 2012

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the geography of external relations of cities.Our overall purpose thereby is to tease out some of the basic principles of alternative approachesto the study of the spatiality of urban systems in the context of economic globalization. To thisend, we present an empirical analysis of the urban geography of producer service procurement<...

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This article critically reflects upon the introduction of behavioural, ‘nudging’ approaches into UK policy making, the latest in a series of regulatory innovations. Initiatives have focused particularly upon correcting lifestyle risk behaviours, marking a significant continuity with previous ‘nannying’ policy. On the other hand, nudging represents a departure, even inversion of previous approac...