CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii List of Tables and Figures xi Preface xii Introduction: Urban Politics in the Twenty-first Century - Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Irnbroscio 1 PARTIPROLOGUE 15 1. Why Study Urban Politics? - Peter John 17 PART IIPOWER 25 2 The History of Community Power - Alan Harding 27 3 Urban Regime Analysis - Karen Mossberger 40 4 Marxism and Urban Politics - Mike Geddes 55 5 'Posty' Urban Political Theory - Serena Kataoka 73 PART IIIGOVERNANCE 89 6 New Institutionalism and Urban Politics - Vivien Lowndes 91 7 Regionalism and Urban Politics - Hank Savitch and Ronald K. Vogel 106 8 Urban Political Leadership - Stephen Greasley and Gerry Stoker125 9 Governance and the Urban Bureaucracy - Anne Mette Kjaer137 10 Globalisation and Urban Issues in the Non-Western World - Richard Stren153 PART IVCITIZENS 169 11 Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion - Mara S. Sidney 171 12 Race and Urban Political Theory - J.Phillip Thompson188 13 Gender and Sexuality - Judith A. Garber 204 14 Social Capital - Helen Sullivan221 15Urban Social Movements - Gordana Rabrenovic239 PART VCHALLENGES 255 16Who is Governed? Local Citizens and the Political Order of Cities - Clarence N. Stone257 Index 274