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Belfast, Jerusalem, Brussels, Montreal, Sarajevo and Nicosia are among the most oft-mentioned examples of ethnically divided cities, situated in a wider context of ethnonational conflict (to varying degrees of intensity). At the same time there are other cities where ethnic and cross-community tensions are significant, but which have not occupied sufficient academic interest. In the Israel/Palestine context, the cities of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa represent such cases. They both contain a minority of Israeli-Palestinians whose patterns of political mobilization and interaction with local state institutions have rarely been explored. Yet the interaction between urban governance actors and Palestinian activists in these cities reveals much about the nature of contemporary ethnopolitics in Israel/Palestine. The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of the ways through which the different mobilization strategies of Israeli-Palestinians in these cities are shaped by altercations between local governance mechanisms, and the internal and external intricacies of ethnic movement politics. The paper develops a relational approach to the study of citizenship in ethnically polarized cities. It suggests that powerful insights into patterns of claiming citizenship can be gained by incorporating dynamic institutional approaches to local minority mobilization with the important roles of symbolic urban politics and the politics of place. The constellation of those factors provides for a rich picture of the subtleties of minority strategies and the governance of ethnically fractured cities. (Ethnopolitics)

This article provides a critical examination of the still‐emerging European Enterprise Policy. European‐wide Enterprise Policy is a relatively recent addition to the host of initiatives and strategies designed to address issues of economic competitiveness and innovation in the EU. In its current form European Enterprise Policy focuses on the promotion of small and medium enterprises as a panacea for economic growth, innovative capacity, productivity gains and job creation. The first part of the article places European Enterprise Policy within a wider political economy, and draws attention to the notions of competitiveness and enterprise embedded in current policy discourse. The second part of the discussion examines more closely issues of integration, governance and spatial development, arguing that awareness of spatial dynamics is, at the moment, a missing element in this policy framework.Cet article présente un examen critique de la Politique européenne de l'entreprise, encore balbutiante. La politique de l'entreprise à l'échelle de l'Europe est un ajout relativement récent à la multitude d'initiatives et de stratégies concçues pour résoudre les questions de concurrence économique et d'innovation dans l'UE. Sous sa forme actuelle, la Politique européenne de l'entreprise se consacre à la promotion des petites et moyennes entreprises en tant que panacée procurant croissance économique, capacité novatrice, gains de productivité et création d'emplois. La premieère partie de l'article replace cette initiative au sein d'une économie politique plus large et attire l'attention sur les notions de compétitivité et d'entreprise incluses dans le discours politique actuel. La seconde partie explore les questions d'intégration, de gouvernance et de développement spatial, soulignant que la prise de conscience de la dynamique spatiale est, pour l'instant, absente de ce cadre politique.

1. Introduction: democracy, conflict and participation in decentred governance Steven Griggs, Aletta J. Norval and Hendrik Wagenaar. - 2. Governance-driven democratisation Mark E. Warren. - 3. Beyond deliberation: agonistic and aversive grammars of democracy: the question of criteria Aletta J. Norval. - 4. Designing democratic institutions for decentred governance: the Council of Europe's acquis Vivien Lowndes and Lawrence Pratchett. - 5. Assessing the democratic anchorage of governance networks Eva Sørenson and Jacob Torfing. - 6. Learning through contested governance: the practice of agonistic intersubjectivity John Forester. - 7. Decentred legitimacy in the new community governance Steven Connelly. - 8. Designing 'the political' in (and out) of neighbourhood governance Helen Sullivan. - 9. Participatory governance in practice Therese O'Toole and Richard Gale. - 10. The agonistic experience: informality, hegemony, and the prospects for democratic governance Hendrik Wagenaar. - 11. Insurgent citizenship: radicalism, co-optation, and neighbourhood geopolitics among the Palestinian citizens of Haifa, Israel Joseph Leibovitz