Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1177/10780874221149531
Maureen M. Donaghy, Yue Zhang
This issue brings us new insights into urban governance and policy change. Urban governance has been a major focus in the urban politics and policy literature in recent decades. With the transition from “city government” to “urban governance,” scholars emphasize the interaction between various state and nonstate actors at multiple levels, through both formal institutional arrangements and informal exchanges (Kaufmann and Sidney 2020; Peters and Pierre 2012; Hambleton and Gross 2007). While the concept of urban governance first emerged in the Western European academic milieu in the 1990s, there is an exciting emerging literature exploring the processes and consequences of urban governance in a cross-national context and diverse issue areas. We find that the articles in this issue investigate different aspects of urban governance, including policy change, policy implementation, political economy, and officer-involved killings.
这个问题让我们对城市治理和政策变革有了新的认识。近几十年来，城市治理一直是城市政治和政策文献的主要焦点。随着从“城市政府”到“城市治理”的转变，学者们强调通过正式的制度安排和非正式的交流，在多个层面上各种国家和非国家行为体之间的互动(Kaufmann and Sidney 2020;Peters and Pierre 2012;Hambleton and Gross, 2007)。虽然城市治理的概念最早出现在20世纪90年代的西欧学术环境中，但有一个令人兴奋的新兴文献在跨国背景和不同的问题领域探索城市治理的过程和后果。我们发现，本期的文章探讨了城市治理的不同方面，包括政策变化、政策实施、政治经济和涉警杀人。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1177/10780874231152590
Hannah Lee, K. Crowder, Elizabeth Korver‐Glenn
Case studies have illuminated that U.S. real estate agents, as key housing market gatekeepers, continue to maintain racial residential stratification well into the twenty-first century. We use novel survey data gathered from real estate agents across the United States to descriptively explore agents’ ideas about clients of color in the housing market, as well as their practices, such as conducting business through social networks. Our findings provide evidence of the subtle and more overt ways that these ideas and practices that, when taken together, constitute what we call racialized real estate agency and contribute to ongoing racial segregation. We issue a call for future research to continue examining the ways agents’ and other gatekeepers’ ideas and practices contribute to or mitigate stratifying processes and describe the utility of such research for policy.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-13DOI: 10.1177/10780874221150793
Kiran Kang, A. Bowman, Bryce Hannibal, Sierra Woodruff, Kent Portney (deceased)
This paper seeks to identify which resilience-oriented policies are being enacted and factors that influence policy adoption. We develop clusters of policies related to three types of resilience: ecological, engineering, and community. Among large U.S. cities, we find wide variation in the number and type of policies enacted. Through multivariate analysis, we identify factors that are associated with the adoption of these policies. Similar to earlier work on sustainability and climate change policy, our results show that larger cities are more likely to adopt all three types of resilience policies. Wealthier and liberal cities adopt more ecological resilience policies. Cities that are members of city networks also adopt more policies, but not all networks significantly influence policy adoption suggesting that network goals and connections are important. We also find that among these large cities, it is the smaller of them that appear to benefit most from membership in networks.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1177/10780874221147474
J. Rubin, Stephen Danley
Increasingly partisan perceptions of neoliberal education reforms and resistance to such reforms from communities they negatively impact have created challenges for some neoliberal reformers. This article uses a case study of the state takeover and dramatic reshaping of the Camden, New Jersey school district to examine how some reformers have responded to those challenges. We find that Camden's state-appointed superintendents used multiple messaging and framing techniques to diffuse community resistance to unpopular policies. We refer to these techniques collectively as window dressing because they are intended to create a perception of movement away from neoliberalism without actually changing neoliberal policies. These strategies are intended to move public opinion and discourage resistance without having to fundamentally address critiques of neoliberal reform. We posit that neoliberal reformers are likely to expand their use of window dressing techniques in response to a growing rejection of neoliberal education policies, particularly by Democrats and progressives.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.1177/10780874221143047
Bryan S. Weber, Paolo Cappellari
In 2017, over a dozen ferry stations were introduced across the NYC region on multiple dates, serving roughly 10,000 customers per day. We measure a negative association between these stations and crime reduction, a significant decline of 11 crimes per week (11%) at a one-mile radius around the stations, and about 1 crime per week (32%) over the extremely narrow base of crime at the station itself. We also find no evidence of crime displacement. This study first utilized a traditional difference-in-differences methodology, but we also used a new tool, the causal random forest. Both methodologies are compared and contrasted with an eye toward user understanding. The results of our analysis are consistent and coherent across all the different methodologies, with the causal random forest finding more pronounced effects by taking into account two major factors: the propensity of the regions for treatment, and the interaction between elements of interest.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1177/10780874221141141
Richardson Dilworth, M. Sidney
1. Howmight cities be more progressive or socially just?What are the building blocks, the theories of governance, and their potential and limits? 2. What motivates voters and officeholders in local government, and how do local managers assess privatized services? 3. What explains neighborhood dynamics, including conflicts between residents, and barriers to affordable housing, such as eviction, housing vacancy, and limited availability of multifamily housing?
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Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1177/10780874221141135
Richardson Dilworth, Maureen M. Donaghy, Christina M. Greer, M. Sidney, Timothy P. R. Weaver, Yue Zhang
We are honored and excited by the opportunity to shape and promote research in one of the world’s longest-standing urban social science journals. We are truly grateful and thankful to the outgoing team – Phil Ashton, Peter Burns, Jered Carr, Josh Drucker, Yue Zhang (also part of the new team), the editorial board, and assistant managing editor, Liz Motyka – for strengthening the journal. We have grand plans to enhance it and its companion website, urbanaffairsreview.com. Of course, by the time anyone reads this our grand plans will have met the maelstrom of manuscript submissions, contentious R&Rs, and the desperate search for reviewers. In the brief period before that happens, we wanted to take some time to chart the direction for this journal over the next five years. After that we have produced a brief introduction to this current issue, the first of Volume 59 – a new feature that will be included at the beginning of all issues. According to the journal’s first editor Marilyn Gittell, the founding in 1965 of Urban Affairs Quarterly (it became the Review in 1995) was “a reflection of the national mood in the 1960s, an acceptance of the responsibility that faced us as a society to confront the needs of our cities through national urban policies” (Gittell 1985, 13). Indeed, the inside cover of the first issue included a quote by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson saying that “the development of plans and programs for the improvement of the urban environment are tasks of the highest importance for all Americans” (quoted in Hunter and Lineberry 1980, 131). But the journal’s goal was always broader than to serve as a response to the emergent “urban crisis” in the United States. Gittell outlined its scope as being “(1) to ‘provide a forum for an interdisciplinary approach to urban studies’; (2) to pay attention to the ‘need for an interchange of ideas and information between the academic community and policy makers’; and (3) to ‘fill the obvious gap in comparative analysis’” (Hunter and Lineberry 1980, 131). We seek to maintain and advance these goals, though their substance has evolved along with the evolution of academic disciplines associated with urban politics and policy, and urban studies. It’s a different world today but of course not entirely so. We face global urban crises, which also include elements of earlier challenges, especially around housing, energy, infrastructure, poverty, and race. Today the effects of climate change cannot be ignored, nor the realities of pandemics such as Letter from the Editors
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1177/10780874221135706
Jered B. Carr
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Pub Date : 2022-10-09DOI: 10.1177/10780874221130530
January Lim, Angeliki Paidakaki, H. Verschure, P. van den Broeck
This paper examines how the concept of participation in planning has been constructed by state and nonstate actors in the politico-institutional context of Singapore. Our objective is to gain a deeper understanding of the political dynamics shaping ideas about participation, and the impact of these contested constructions on the perpetuation of the ruling party's political control. Drawing on strategic-relational institutionalist planning and cultural political economy theories, we analyze 312 documents including government and civil society periodicals, parliamentary debates, and academic publications, focusing on the planning and participatory practices of Singapore's national planning agency from the mid-1980s to 2020. The findings reveal that state-led coalitions continuously reframed participation as an instrument of economic growth, nation-building, and activism-management, while nonstate-led coalitions emerged to transform state-civil society relations through promoting and materializing alternative meanings of participation. These dynamics demonstrate the potentialities and limitations of democratizing urban planning and governance in Singapore's hybrid regime.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1177/10780874221080122
D. Switzer, Jun Deng
Special districts are an increasingly important part of the local government equation in the United States, representing over forty percent of local governments. The spread of these governments is controversial, however, as some argue that they will have a negative impact on service delivery, due to a perceived lack of political accountability. Others argue that their focus on single policy issues allow them to more efficiently respond to the citizens they serve. Despite the controversy, only a few studies have quantitatively investigated the differences in service delivery between special district and general purpose governments. Building on Mullin's earlier work, in this research note we investigate the relationship between specialized local government and water utility rates. We find little direct difference between special districts and general-purpose governments, with some minimal support for a conditional relationship between special districts and scarcity.
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