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International audience ; Discussing results of our joint project that examines the complexinteractions among intergovernmental organizations and othertransnational institutions and nonstate actors in the global Internetgovernance ecosystem, this study highlights themes related to thechanging architecture and roles of international organizations from WSIS(World Summit on the Information Society) until NetMundial. Attention ispaid to old and new categories of organizations that emerged in thiscontext; and how they have been recognized as stakeholders in theprocess. These organizations form a network, set in an environmentalcontext, thus constituting the interorganizational infrastructure for internetgovernance today. Additionally, tracing knowledge flows and powerdifferentials over time among the different stakeholder organizations helpsto illustrate a major finding, the pro-active role of the internationalorganizations studied here in the messy, complex, and cross-nationalinternet governance ecosystem, shaped by and, at the same time, shapingthe technical infrastructure.

This paper presents a theory of the maturity of international sovereign debt, and derives its implications for the reform of the international financial architecture. The analysis is based on a model in which the need to roll over external debt disciplines the policies of debtor countries, but makes them vulnerable to unwarranted debt crises due to bad shocks. The paper presents a welfare analysis of several measures that have been discussed in recent debates, such as international lending-in-last-resort or the establishment of a mechanism for suspending payments on the external debt of crisis countries. (JEL F34, O19)

This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neoliberalisation. Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves

We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of jurisdictions and the performance ability of their administrations) of two governments, one centralized and the other decentralized. Under a decentralized government, national and subnational decision-makers only consider the impact of their decisions on the welfare of their constituents, neglecting other tiers' policy. The resulting architecture is generally different from the (first-best) centralized one, and depends on how citizens weight the performance ability of the administrations and the range of goods they provide. If the relative weight on the performance ability is large, the decentralized architecture entails more tiers, less jurisdictions per tier with reduced scope of services than the centralized one, and the reverse if this relative weight is small. We use our results to estimate this weight on U.S. data. We find that the country exhibits two zones ("Northeast & West" and "Midwest & South") where the estimated values are statistically different.

International audience ; En cinq tableaux sur la ville de Rezé, l'auteur décrit l'action édilitaire en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Avec constance, de 1950 à nos jours, les municipalités successives ont voulu construire une mise en récit de l'architecture comme élément du discours politique et de l'action sur le territoire, notamment par le biais de la patrimonialisation des édifices anciens ou contemporains.

International audience ; En cinq tableaux sur la ville de Rezé, l'auteur décrit l'action édilitaire en matière d'urbanisme et d'architecture. Avec constance, de 1950 à nos jours, les municipalités successives ont voulu construire une mise en récit de l'architecture comme élément du discours politique et de l'action sur le territoire, notamment par le biais de la patrimonialisation des édifices anciens ou contemporains.

First published in 1997, this volume explores how, seventeen years after the election of the first Thatcher government, it is clear that despite the attacks, land use planning has survived. Talk during the 1980s of the death of planning and a bonfire of controls seem in hindsight distant and alarmist. Planning now has a new lease of life and is once again firmly on the government's agenda. So what happened during the 1980s? How did planning come to experience such a radical change in fortune? Philip Allmendinger explores the impact and influence of the New Right's intentions for planning through arguably the most Thatcherite approach of all: Simplified Planning Zones (SPZs). In doing so he identifies the contradictions and confusion at the heart of Thatcherism that led to vague legislation and objectives allowing localities to interpret Thatcherism for themselves often using policies such as SPZs for reasons very different than those intended.