Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis

Place Equality Regimes and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries

Jefferey M. Sellers, Marta Arretche, Daniel Kübler, Eran Razin, Jefferey M. Sellers, Marta Arretche, Daniel Kübler, Eran Razin

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781137573773
• eBook ISBN: 9781137573780
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions. Extended, diversified metropolitan regions have become the dominant form of human settlement, and disparities among metropolitan places figure increasingly in wider trends toward growing inequality. Regimes of place equality are increasingly critical components of welfare states and territorial administration. They can aggravate disparities in services and taxes, or mitigate and compensate for local differences. The volume examines these regimes in a global sample of eleven democracies, including developed and developing countries on five continents. The analyses reveal new dimensions of efforts to grapple with growing inequality around the world, and a variety of institutional blueprints to address one of the most daunting challenges of twenty-first century governance. 

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1: Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Framework for Global Comparison
• Part I: The Tieboutian Model
• Part II: The Partial Equalization Model
• Part III: The Full Equalization Model
• Index