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"As the material anchors of globalization, North America's global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially--creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes--remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people--and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public."--

As the material anchors of globalization, North America's global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially - creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes - remains unders

Die USA sind als liberaler Staat gegründet worden und gelten bis heute als Wegbereiter westlicher Werte. Mit der Regierung um Donald Trump übernahmen jedoch antiliberale Kräfte die Führung des Landes. Die Gründe hierfür sind vielschichtig, allerdings muss das Phänomen Trump als eine grundlegendere Verschiebung in der Politik verstanden werden – eine immanente Krise des Liberalismus'.

Using Vancouver, BC, as a case study, this paper explores the development of sociospatial dynamics in global cities with a specific emphasis on changing logistics infrastructures. Since the mid-1970s, urban and regional planners have reconfigured spatial patterns of global cities in order to facilitate global flows of containerized goods more efficiently, flexibly and reliably. At the same time, in a context of volatile and global financial capitalism, derelict old port areas in the inner-cities of cities around the world have been redeveloped and re-valued to attract investor and tourist dollars to 'historic' districts and 'old ports.' In Vancouver, the post-industrial Waterfront epitomizes promises of a more sustainable, livable, and leisurely city – understood in public and urban planning discourses as the exact opposite of its industrial past. This analysis finds that, rather than resolving the pathologies, risks, and liabilities of the industrial age the costs of the new accumulation regime have simply been relocated and externalized. ; http://www.kanada-studien.org/publikationen/zks/

Preface -- Crises of democracy, more globally considered -- Modern sources of legitimacy -- Universalisms of an elite nation-building project -- Mass democracy and the Fordist compromise -- Maintaining the promise in the era of globalization -- Rethinking equality for today.

"Legitimizing Authority places the American state apparatus back in the foreground to rethink the development of the country's government in the context of its unfulfilled promise of equality. The book argues that the tensions between calls for equality and the simultaneous tolerance of inequality, have accompanied the rise of modern mass society, and, with it, of liberal democracy. Vormann and Lammert emphasize that government has played and continues to play a decisive role in calibrating the relationship between the interior and the exterior of the nation, moving between an extractive state, a taxation state, and a welfare state over time in order to expand social access and political participation inside the national community - while tolerating conditions that continue to belie the historical promise of equality. The authors draw on a range of literatures that transcend disciplinary boundaries to reveal how exploitative practices have been accepted. They conclude that the legitimization crises of the present must be comprehended through understanding how legitimation was always maintained by a state apparatus active at multiple scales and in multiple policy fields. This interdisciplinary book is addressed to a broad audience across disciplines, including political science, political economy, political history, comparative politics, international politics, international relations, American Political Development (APD), and cultural studies"--

Klappentext: Die amerikanische Demokratie ist vielleicht die älteste und traditionsreichste der Welt, aber sie ist auch reformbedürftig und krisengeschüttelt. Nicht erst der 6. Januar 2021 hat dies gezeigt. Mit Blick auf ihre politischen Institutionen, den amerikanischen Föderalismus, die Partei- und Medienlandschaft sowie Fragen der politischen Kultur und überkommener normativer Ideale von sozialer Gerechtigkeit diskutieren die Beiträge des Heftes unterschiedliche Anachronismen und Widersprüche innerhalb des demokratischen Systems der USA und gehen auf Vorschläge zu Reform und Veränderung ein. Mit Beiträgen von Maren Freudenberg | Christoph Haas | Eva Marlene Hausteiner | Laura Kettel | Alexander Keyssar | Christian Lammert | Claus Leggewie | Heike Paul | Astrid Séville | Laura Vorberg | Boris Vormann

Das Gleichheitsversprechen ist das zentrale Prinzip, das der Herrschaft in modernen Massengesellschaften Legitimität verleiht. Herkunft reicht längst nicht mehr aus, um die gesellschaftliche Stellung zu rechtfertigen. Der Weg an die Macht muss zumindest theoretisch allen offen stehen. Die Gleichheit als möglichen Endpunkt der Modernisierung darzustellen, wäre allerdings verkürzt. Diese Sicht reduziert den Blick auf einzelne Nationalgeschichten – England als Wiege der Demokratie, Frankreich von Karl dem Großen bis zu Charles de Gaulle, die USA als Sonderweg. Geschichte ist aber mehr als die Erzählung von Emanzipation innerhalb einzelner Nationen. Die Entstehung liberaler Demokratien war unmittelbar von direkten Abhängigkeitsverhältnissen geprägt. Entscheidend ist die Einsicht, dass Gleichheit einen Preis hatte. Ist Demokratie, als Versprechen von Gleichheit, überhaupt ohne Ausbeutungsmechanismen möglich? Dieses Buch wirft einen Blick auf die Schattenseiten der Demokratie, indem es die USA – oft als Vorreiter und Musterschüler verklärt – im Kontext ihrer imperialen Beziehungen neu denkt.

From a politics of no alternative to a politics of fear / Michael Weinman and Boris Vormann -- What does a legitimation crisis mean today? / Brian Milstein -- Illiberal democracy and the struggle on the right / Marc Plattner -- Illiberal democracy? : a Tocquevillian perspective / Ewa Atanassow -- The open society from a conservative perspective / Roger Scruton -- The failing technocratic prejudice and the challenge to liberal democracy / Roger BerkowitzII -- Global Trumpism : understanding anti-system politics in Western democracies / Jonathan Hopkin and Mark Blyth -- The crisis of democracy : the United States in perspective / Christian Lammert -- The European Union and Its chances for democratic revitalization / Claudia Wiesner -- Eastern Europe's illiberal revolution / Ivan Krastev -- Illiberal democracy or electoral autocracy : the case of Turkey / Gülçin Balamir Coşkun and Aysuda Kölemen -- India's unofficial emergency / Nandini Sundar -- Japan : land of the rising right / Kristin Surak -- "It's all corrupt" : the roots of Bolsonarism in Brazil / Esther Solano -- Populism and democracy : the long view / Craig Calhoun.