A few critical remarks on globalisation, democracy and spatiality

Economic Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 56-61

  Zientara, Piotr ^a  

^a HRM   (Poland)

Author keywords

Globalisation; Local democracy; Regional development; Spatiality

Indexed keywords

EID: 66949155388     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: 14680270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2009.01895.x     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Appadurai, A. (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2. Armstrong, H. and J. Taylor (2000) Regional Economics and Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.
3. Banerjee-Guha, S. (1997) Spatial Dynamics of International Capital, Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
4. Barr, N. (2001) The Welfare State as Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty and the Role of the State, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Bartholomew, J. (2004) The Welfare State We're In: The Failure of the Welfare State, London: Politico's Publishing.
6. Beaumont, J. and M. Loopmans (2008) 'Towards Radicalized Communicative Rationality: Resident Involvement and Urban Democracy in Rotterdam and Antwerp', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32, 1, 95-113.
7. Beddoes, Z. M. (2008) 'When Fortune Frowned', Economist, No. 8601, pp. 3-34.
8. Brakman, S. and H. Garretsen (2005) Location and Competition, New York: Routledge.
9. Brenner, N. (1999) 'Globalisation as Reterritorialization: The Re-scaling of Urban Governance in Europe', Urban Studies, 36, 3, 431-451.
10. Brenner, N. (2001) 'The Limits to Scale? Methodological Reflections on Scalar Structuration', Progress in Human Geography, 25, 4, 591-614.
11. Brenner, N. (2004) New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12. Clasen, J. (2005) Reforming European Welfare States. Germany and the United Kingdom Compared, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13. Cohen, J. and J. Rogers (1992) 'Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance', Politics and Society, 2, 4, 393-472.
14. Cumbers, A. and D. MacKinnon (2005) Clusters in Urban and Regional Development, London: Routledge.
15. Davis, M. (1998) Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, New York: Metropolitan Books.
16. DeFilippis, J. (2004) Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital, New York: Routledge.
17. Dreier, P. J., J. H. Mollenkopf and T. Swanstrom (2001) Place Matters: Metropolitcs for the Twenty-first Century, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
18. Dryzek, J. (1996) Democracy in Capitalist Times, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
19. Economist (2007) 'Rich Man, Poor Man', No. 8512, p. 12.
20. Economist (2008) 'Bold Strokes', No. 8602, p. 85.
21. European Commission (2007) 'Innovation Clusters in Europe: A Statistical Analysis and Overview of Current Policy Support', DG Enterprise and Industry Report, OOPEC, Luxembourg. Available at http://www.europe-innova.org/index.jsp?type=page&cid=8702&lg=en/.
22. Eurostat (2006) 'Regional Statistics'. Available at http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/.
23. Eurostat (2008) 'Regional Statistics'. Available at: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/.
24. Featherstone, D. J. (2003) 'Spatialities of Trans-national Resistance to Globalization: The Maps of Grievance of the Inter-continental Caravan', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28, 4, 404-421.
25. Fung, A. (2004) Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
26. Gilbert, N. (2002) Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
27. Goodhart, M. (2001) 'Democracy, Globalization and the Problem of the State', Polity, 33, 4, 527-546.
28. Graham, S. and S. Marvin (2001) Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places, London: Routledge.
29. Green, G. and A. Haines (2001) Asset Building and Community Development, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
30. Harvey, D. (2006) Spaces of Global Capitalism, New York: Verso.
31. Hayek, F. A. von (1960) The Constitution of Liberty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
32. Imbroscio, D. (2006) 'Shaming the Inside Game. A Critique of the Liberal Expansionist Approach to Addressing Urban Problems', Urban Affairs Review, 42, 2, 224-248.
33. Jensen, O. B. and T. Richardson (2004) Making European Space: Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity, New York: Routledge.
34. Kanter, R. M. (1995) World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy, New York: Simon & Schuster.
35. Keil, R. (2002) 'Common-sense Neoliberalism: Progressive Conservative Urbanism in Toronto, Canada', Antipode, 34, 3, 578-601.
36. Krugman, P. (1991) 'Increasing Returns and Economic Geography', Journal of Political Economy, 99, 3, 483-499.
37. Lefebvre, H. (1968) Le droit àla ville, Paris: Anthopos.
38. Leitner, A. and E. Shepard (1997) 'Economic Uncertainty, Inter-urban Competition and the Efficacy of Entrepreneurialism', in T. Hall and P. Hubbard (eds.) The Entrepreneurial City: Geographies of Politics, Regime and Representation, London: Wiley, pp. 285-308.
39. MacLeod, G. (2000) 'The Learning Region in an Age of Austerity: Capitalizing on Knowledge, Entrepreneurialism and Reflexive Capitalism', Geoforum, 3, 2, 219-236.
40. MacLeod, G. (2001) 'New Regionalism Reconsidered: Globalization, Regulation and the Recasting of Political Economic Space', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25, 4, 804-829.
41. Marston, S. A. (2000) 'The Social Construction of Scale', Progress in Human Geography, 24, 2, 219-242.
42. McGuirk, P. M. (1997) 'Multiscaled Interpretations of Urban Change: The Federal, the State, and the Local in the Western Area Strategy of Adelaide', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15, 4, 481-498.
43. Mises, L. von (1949) Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
44. OECD (2006) OECD Territorial Reviews: Newcastle in the North East, the United Kingdom, Paris: OECD.
45. Ohmae, K. (1995) The End of the Nation State, New York: Free Press.
46. Park, B.-G. (2008) 'Uneven Development, Inter-scalar Tensions, and the Politics of Decentralization in South Korea', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32, 1, 40-59.
47. Purcell, M. (2006) 'Urban Democracy and the Local Trap', Urban Studies, 43, 11, 1921-1941.
48. Razin, A. and E. Sadka (2005) The Decline of the Welfare State. Demography and Globalization, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
49. Rusk, D. (1999) Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
50. Sapir, A., P. Aghion, G. Bertola, M. Hellwig, J. Pisani-Ferry, D. Rosati, J. Viñals and H. Wallace (2004) An Agenda for a Growing Europe, The Sapir Report, New York: Oxford University Press.
51. Sassen, S. (1993) Cities in the World Economy, London: Sage.
52. Scott, A. J. (1996) 'Regional Motors of the Global Economy', Futures, 28, 5, 391-411.
53. Scott, A. J. (1998) Regions and the World Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
54. Shuman, M. (1998) Going Local: Creating Self-reliant Communities in a Global Age, New York: Free Press.
55. Siegele, L. (2006) 'Waiting for a Wunder', Economist, No. 8464, pp. 3-20.
56. Smith, N. (1993) 'Homeless/Global: Scaling Places ', in J. Bird, B. Curtis, T. Putnam, G. Robertson and L. Tickner (eds.) Mapping the Futures: Local Cultures, Global Change, London: Routledge, pp. 87-119.
57. Storper, M. (1997) The Regional World, Territorial Development in a Global Economy, New York: Guilford Press.
58. Swyngedouw, E. (1997) 'Neither Global nor Local: "Glocalization"and the Politics of Scale', in K. Cox (ed.) Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of Local, New York: Guilford Press, pp. 137-166.
59. Torrance, M. I. (2008) 'Urban Infrastructure as Networked Financial Products', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32, 1, 1-21.
60. Williamson, T., D. Imbroscio and G. Alerovitz (2002) Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy for a Global Era, New York: Routledge.
61. World Bank (2008) Doing Business 2009. Available at http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/.
62. Zientara, P. (2008) 'Polish Regions in the Age of a Knowledge-based Economy', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32, 1, 65-80.