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Controlling the capital: political dominance in the urbanizing world
Kategorie	Beschreibung
037b	eng
087q	978-0-19-286832-9
087s	$aOpen access.
100b	Goodfellow, Tom ¬[HerausgeberIn]¬
104b	Jackman, David ¬[HerausgeberIn]¬
331	Controlling the capital
335	political dominance in the urbanizing world
410	Oxford
412	Oxford University Press
425	September 2023
425a	2023
433	1 Online-Ressource (xii, 274 Seiten) : Illustrationen
451b	Oxford scholarship online
501	Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 4, 2023)
527	Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe)ISBN: 978-0-19-286832-9
540a	ISBN 978-0-19-196426-8 ebook
700	\|RF
700	\|RI01
700	\|SF01
700	\|SF08
700b	\|307.76
750	This edited volume presents a cross-regional comparative study of the role of capital cities and urbanization in the rise of authoritarianism. It explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance, drawing on six diverse case studies from Africa and Asia. Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates of urbanization in many parts of the world, raising questions about the role of cities—often considered the focal points of democratic deepening—in this authoritarian turn. With most literature on authoritarianism focusing on the national scale, in this book we train our gaze on capital cities, which as ‘containers’ of both capital and sovereignty are spaces in which authoritarian dominance is increasingly built, contested, maintained, and undone. Focusing on some of the world’s fastest urbanizing regions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the book explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance in capital cities in order to meet the challenge of urban political resistance. Our diverse selection of case studies spans governing regimes that have recently tried to build urban dominance and spectacularly failed, as well as those that have managed to hold onto power by constantly evolving strategies for dominance that limit the potential for urban opposition to tip into regime overthrow. With chapters on Addis Ababa, Colombo, Dhaka, Harare, Kampala, and Lusaka, this book offers the first cross-regional comparative study of the relationship between cities and political dominance. It contributes to debates on authoritarianism and authoritarian durability, urbanization, political contestation and resistance, the politics of development, and the prospects for democracy.
902s	20914789X Verstädterung
902s	209118741 Stadt
902s	211615161 Herrschaftssystem
902s	209056975 Opposition
902s	209681365 Kooptation
902s	208893415 Demokratie
902s	209594713 Defizit
012	1876297085
081	Controlling the capital
100	E-Book Oxford EBS
125a	Elektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz
655e	$uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192868329.001.0001