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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Jury Trial Reinvented

open access: yes, 2021
Robertson CT, Shammas M.
europepmc   +1 more source

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN AUTOCRACIES: Conflicting Logics, Unintended Consequences and Contentious Participation in Angola's Orçamento Participativo

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
wiley   +1 more source

GOVERNING OR MANIPULATING LEVERAGE TO BUILD MORE CITIES? Borrowing in the Shadows by Local Governments and Real Estate Developers in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid growing interest in how states manage urban development through public finance, this article examines the institutional logics of leverage manipulation as a mode of contemporary urban governance. Focusing on China's evolving political economy, it investigates how local governments and real estate developers co‐produce a shadow financial ...
Ang Liu
wiley   +1 more source

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