If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities - Couverture rigide

Barber, Benjamin R.

 
9780300164671: If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
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ISBN 10 : 030016467X ISBN 13 : 9780300164671
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time - climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns and people - the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of a dozen mayors around the world - courageous, eccentric, or both at once - If Mayors Ruled the World presents a compelling new vision of governance for the coming century. Barber makes a persuasive case that the city is democracy's best hope in a globalizing world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so.

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À propos de l?auteur

Benjamin R. Barber is senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is also president and founder of the Interdependence Movement and the author of seventeen books, including Jihad vs. McWorld and Strong Democracy. He lives in New York City.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
030016467X
ISBN 13 
9780300164671
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780300209327: If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300209320 ISBN 13 :  9780300209327
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014
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