What Do Cities Have to Do with Democracy?

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1625-1643

  Barnett, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

All affected interests; Critical theory; Democracy; Normativity; Urban politics

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; DEMOCRATIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL THEORY; URBAN POLITICS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84906942869     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12148     Document Type: Article

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