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AbstractExisting scholarship suggests that local transformation in reform‐era China has been a process of decentralization of state power driving extractive local governments to pursue economic growth through rapacious land appropriation and producing many miserable landless villagers. This study puts forward an alternative perspective by arguing that local governance reforms in China to advance urban development should also be interpreted as a process of state building, whereby local government reshaped its governance strategy so as to mitigate potential social unrest and strengthen its political legitimacy in governing rapidly urbanizing areas. Based on intensive fieldwork in a periurban district in southern China, this research examines how the local state has heightened its control over urbanizing villages through its day‐to‐day governance practices and the pursuit of a complex policy agenda comprising social welfare provision, shareholding reforms and intervention in grassroots politics. The findings of this study shed new light on understanding local state transformation in periurban China and on explaining why the country still maintains tremendous urban growth despite incessant land disputes and numerous social tensions at different localities.

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This study, is a continuation of the efforts to explore waste governance by means of the Urban Political Ecology (UPE) approach. However, it is not constrained to the existing frames or geographical contexts within which UPE of waste research currently operates. Offering a view from Ankara, Turkey, this research presents an inquiry on the co-evolution of socio-technical heterogeneity and waste governance. Informed by the complex relations underlying the production, change and sustained coexistence of authorized and unauthorized socio-technical configurations around waste, and the ramifications of this coexistence for the urban governance of waste, this book1) explores the mechanisms lying behind the metabolic urbanization of waste and the construction of urban policy and planning responses towards waste within the context of rapid urbanization in Ankara; 2) investigates how various socio-technical responses towards waste is historically produced and transformed; and 3) develops a more insightful theoretical frame to understand such environmentally, socio-spatially, economically and politically important issue.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Urbanization and development in China -- Urbanization and hukou reform -- Urban and regional restructuring -- Regional development and governance -- Outline of the book -- 2 Scale, state and the urban transformation in post-reform China -- Introduction -- Scale theory and sociospatial transformation -- Rescaling the central and local states -- Changing city scales and urban territorialization -- Conclusion -- 3 Dual-track urbanization in post-reform China -- Introduction -- An interpretive framework of Chinese urbanization -- State-sponsored urbanization in the pre-reform period -- Dual-track urbanization in the post-reform period -- Empirical analysis of dual-track urbanization in China -- Conclusion -- 4 Spatial analysis of the urban system in Guangdong -- Introduction -- Expanding urbanization under the socialist market economy in post-reform China -- Definition of city size, data and methodology -- Differentials in the rank-size distribution of the urban system using population and economic indicators -- The role of economic development in the process of urbanization -- Conclusion -- 5 Urban growth and sustainable development in Shenzhen city -- Introduction -- Urban economic growth -- Migration and population growth -- Impact on agriculture and environmental pollution -- Conclusion -- 6 Economic relations between Hong Kong and mainland China -- Introduction -- Hong Kong's ranking as a competitive center -- Economic integration before and after the handover in 1997 -- Cross-boundary investment between Hong Kong and mainland China -- Trade between Hong Kong and mainland China -- Growth of Hong Kong's logistics and tourism industries -- Challenges posed by changing economic relations -- Conclusion

"Der Begriff Local Governance wird in der aktuellen Diskussion recht unterschiedlich verwendet. Überblickartig lassen sich drei Begriffsdimensionen unterscheiden: (1) Erstens steht Governance für eine neue analytische Perspektive der Politikwissenschaft. Politische und gesellschaftliche Koordination wird danach zunehmend als Zusammenspiel von Hierarchie, Politiknetzwerken und Markt interpretiert. Damit wird aber noch keine Aussage darüber getroffen, ob sich die politische Steuerung im Zeitablauf auch tatsächlich verändert hat. (2) Zweitens werden unter dem Begriff Governance deskriptiv auch weitgehende inhaltliche Veränderungen der politischen Steuerung subsumiert. (3) Schließlich wird unter dem Begriff Governance - im Sinne von Good Governance - darüber diskutiert, wie sich politische Koordinierung aus normativer Sicht verändern sollte. In dem Beitrag werden diese unterschiedlichen Begriffsdimensionen an zentralen Ergebnissen der lokalen Politikforschung verdeutlicht." (GB)

The book addresses in detail local governance in Spain. In recent decades, local governments in Europe have increasingly found themselves under pressure from a multitude of new challenges, such as demographic change, climate change, fiscal austerity policies, digitization, the demand for more citizen participation in local affairs, and the migration crisis in some of them, to name just a few. Consequently, a wave of political and administrative reforms to address these challenges, pressures and problems, has changed local governance in many countries. In part, these changes were the result of reform policies introduced by national and state governments, often triggered by austerity policies, which has become an overwhelming reality for Spanish local governments that have been forced to introduce innovations in local governance. This book aims to give an account of these innovations in local governance in Spain. This book considers the local political-administrative structure in its dimensions, focusing on the analysis of its party system, electoral competition and political behavior in the local arena, as well as on local finances, all of which are determining elements in urban and rural governance processes. On the occasion of the recent crisis unleashed by Covid-19, the book will also deal with local governance in crisis situations. The book will also contextualize local governance processes in Spain in relation to the trends in local governance observed in other European countries.

Chapter 1. Introduction (Ángel Iglesias) -- Chapter 2. The institutional architecture of local governments in Spain (Marta Méndez) -- Chapter 3. Local governance in a context of multilevel governance (Ángel Valencia and Francisco Collado) -- Chapter 4. The problem of governance in metropolitan areas and small municipalities (Adela Romero and Ángel Iglesias) -- Chapter 5. Inter-municipal cooperation (Marta Méndez) -- Chapter 6. Structure of local government finance (Ángel Iglesias) -- Chapter 7. Local elections and political leadership (Ángel Iglesias) -- Chapter 8. Local governance in crisis situations: the case of the COVID 19 pandemic (Ángel Iglesias and Roberto Barbeito) -- Chapter 9. The future of local governance in Spain in the European perspective (Ángel Iglesias) -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.

Over the last 15 years, most of the World Bank studies have focused on development of standards governance indicators which do not take into consideration the realities of developing countries such as Tunisia. Many countries have adopted these indicators to measure their governance quality. Yet none, to our knowledge, has attempted to define its local governance indicators. The purpose of this study is to show the need for developing a local governance indicator. The following variables have been selected: contract intensive money, foreign direct investment, scientific and technical articles produced and budgetary policy of the State to elaborate a local governance indicator. Our results indicate that governance variables affect economic growth. According to our results, improving the financial sector, scientific research and State spending policy can enhance economic growth.