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L'auteur présente l'état des recherches sur le gouvernement local en Grande-Bretagne. Le pouvoir local a connu dans ce pays des changements majeurs avec l'arrivée des conservateurs en 1979. Le débat s'est d'abord centré sur l'étude des forces de changements, pour aboutir aujourd'hui à une analyse de la nature du système émergent. Ceci pose des problèmes théoriques, incite à étudier les réseaux politiques, le rôle du marché et soulève des questions sur le rôle nouveau de l'Etat et des citoyens.

Urban governance in general & partnerships in particular are commonly legitimized as being more efficient than traditional forms of government, whereas their relationship to democracy is only mentioned in passing or even neglected. In most of the literature, a number of efficiency-related arguments in favor of the partnership approach are presented, although its alleged capacity to create synergetic effects for the partners normally ranks number one. Of course it is an empirical question, whether a partnership is efficient or not, but the point is that the efficiency rhetoric is strong enough to legitimize the creation of partnerships anyhow. Partnerships are more or less ascribed the function to solve any governance problem. Taking its point of departure in a theoretical discussion of partnerships & their role in urban governance, & using illustrations taken from recent empirical studies, the main aim of the paper is to develop a research strategy for crossnational/crosscountry research on partnerships & urban governance. The paper concludes by discussing some policy implications of the growing role of partnerships in urban governance, highlighting their so far neglected relationship to democracy. 32 References. Adapted from the source document.

Urban governance in general and partnerships in particular are commonly legitimised as being more efficient than traditional forms of government, whereas their relationship to democracy is only mentioned in passing or even neglected. In most of the literature a number of efficiency–related arguments in favour of the partnership approach are presented, although its alleged capacity to create synergetic effects for the partners normally ranks number one. Of course it is an empirical question, whether a partnership is efficient or not, but the point is that the efficiency rhetoric is strong enough to legitimise the creation of partnerships anyhow. Partnerships are more or less ascribed the function to solve any governance problem. Taking its point of departure in a theoretical discussion of partnerships and their role in urban governance, and using illustrations taken from recent empirical studies, the main aim of the paper is to develop a research strategy for cross–national/cross–country research on partnerships and urban governance. The paper concludes by discussing some policy implications of the growing role of partnerships in urban governance, high–lighting their so–far neglected relationship to democracy.

RUP conference proceedings on urban development and management. ; Presented in the next sections are papers on the proceedings of a workshop, which successfully managed to highlight current, future issues and challenges concerning urban governance in Zimbabwe. Urban Development, Growth and Governance Issues: Historically, urban local governments in Zimbabwe tended to have wide ranging capacity to provide a broad range of services to their populations. Delivery of these services and maintenance of the related infrastructure was efficient. This was mainly because of the relatively slow rate of urbanization. Urban settlement growth was kept under check through rigorous and tight development control and control of rural-urban migration. The changes brought about by national independence created unprecedented service, delivery and management and governance challenges. Virtually all-Zimbabwean urban settlements are growing and expanding at an unprecedented rate which raises serious questions of sustainability, environment, infrastructure, poverty and governance. Indeed, the current rates qf growth will, by the year 2016, see 50% of Zimbabwe's 11 million people residing in urban areas. \ \ x . The principal factors behind this rapid urban growth are rural to urban migration and natural population increases, in this regard, the presentation by Mr K P Murapa and Mr J Mabhenge develops scenarios and detailed accounts of the rural-urban linkages and their importance in urban policy formulation and management. While urban local authorities are battling to cope with the increasing demand for urban services, the problem is that of poverty in that the majority of the people who need the services cannot afford to pay for them. ; The Ford Foundation.

Topics include dissociated governance, liberalism and neoliberalism, and globalization; 4 articles.

Machine generated contents note: PART I: CONCEPTUALISING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY -- Editorial Introduction: Collective Action and Social Milieux -- Ali Madanipour 3 -- 1 Transforming Governance, Institutionalist Analysis and -- Institutional Capacity -- Patsy Healey, Gbran Cars, Ali Madanipour and Claudio de -- Magalhaes 6 -- 2 Institutional Capacity Building as an Issue of Collective Action -- and Institutionalisation: Some Theoretical Remarks -- Enrico Gualini 29 -- 3 Assessing Institutional Capacity for City Centre Regeneration: -- Newcastle's Grainger Town -- Claudio de Magalhaes, Patsy Healey and Ali Madanipour 45 -- PART II: GOVERNANCE IN ACTION IN COMPLEX SOCIAL -- MILIEUX -- Editorial Introduction: The Challenge of Building New Institutional -- Capacities -- Claudio de Magalhaes 65 -- 4 Transformational Pathways and Institutional Capacity Building: -- The Case of the German-Polish Twin City Guben/Gubin -- Ulf Matthiesen 70 -- 5 The Tangled Web - Neighbourhood Governance in a Post-Fordist -- Era -- Judith Allen and Gdran Cars 90 -- 6 Is Partnership Possible? Searching for a New Institutional -- Settlement -- Marilyn Taylor 106 -- 7 Governance, Institutional Capacity and Planning for Growth -- Christine Lambert and Nick Oatley 125 -- PART III: BUILDING NEW INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES -- Editorial Introduction: Creating Milieux for Collective Action -- Goran Cars 145 -- 8 Compliance and Collaboration in Urban Governance -- Murray Stewart 149 -- 9 A Strategic Approach to Community Planning: Repositioning -- the Statutory Development Plan -- Vincent Goodstadt and Grahame Buchan 168 -- 10 Sustainable Institutional Capacity for Planning: The West -- Midlands -- Alan Wenban-Smith 191 -- 11 Urban Governance Capacity in Complex Societies: Challenges of -- Institutional Adaptation -- Patsy Healey, Goran Cars, Ali Madanipour and Claudio de -- Magalhaes 204 -- References 226 -- Index 243

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Historical Urban Studies General Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Governance: two centuries of urban growth -- 2 Urban governance: some reflections -- 3 The 'decline' of British urban governance since 1850: a reassessment -- 4 Urban government, finance and public health in Victorian Britain -- 5 The role and influence of Glasgow's municipal managers, 1890s-1930s -- 6 Urban governance in Montreal and Toronto in a period of transition -- 7 A spirit of improvement: improvement commissioners, boards of health and central-local relations in Portsea -- 8 Expediency, authority and duplicity: reforming Sheffield's police, 1832-40 -- 9 Politics, ideology and the governance of health care in Sheffield before the NHS -- 10 French local authorities and the challenge of industrial pollution, c. 1810-1917 -- 11 A paradigm of inaction? The politics and un-politics of smoke abatement legislation in Stockport, 1844-56 -- 12 Industrial conciliation, class co-operation and the urban landscape in mid-Victorian England -- 13 The search for legitimacy: universities, medical licensing bodies and governance in Glasgow and Edinburgh from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries -- 14 Ownership of the place of burial: a study of early nineteenth-century urban conflict in Britain -- 15 Ritual and civic culture in the English industrial city, c. 1835-1914 -- 16 The management of urban public spaces: Shahjahanabad, New Delhi, Greater Delhi, 1857-1997 -- Index

Local governments in Western Europe have become increasingly involved in network building with the local business community. The author suggests that governance processes are not value neutral but reflect and sustain political values beyond partisan conflict. Comparing managerial, corporatist, progrowth, and welfare governance models of urban governance, the author argues that nation-state factors play an important role in shaping urban governance. Different sectors in urban politics display different models of governance and local political choice matters. Also, cities within the same national context differ significantly with regard to the degree of inclusion of organized interests in urban governance, which, in turn, is reflected in urban policy outcomes.