#Oakland #Police already $14.6 million over #budget halfway through fiscal year
despite only 509 sworn officers on active duty – at least 200 below the minimum #staffing threshold of 700 set by #crime infested #California city's long beleaguered & betrayed #voters.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2111026&post_id=190510287
OnlineFirst - "Post-entrepreneurial cities? Runaway housing costs and the humanitarian turn in urban governance" by Marc Doussard:
#housing #incomeinequality #rentiercapitalism #urbanpolitics #Covid19
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X251349103
Rice University political scientist Robert M. “Bob” Stein died Friday, July 18, at the age of 75.
#Education #EducationNews #Elections #News #Obituary #Politics #Voting #BakerInstituteForPublicPolicy #LeadershipEducation #RiceUniversity #UrbanPolitics
Those of us teaching and studying #UrbanPolitics in Canada have a troubling tendency to think that local politics is a distraction because towns and cities are creatures of the provinces, but of course in reality there's a lot of important complexity and agency at play. #WesternUniversity political scientists Martin Horak and Zack Taylor have created the Canadian Municipal Attributes Portal, which they report on here with Charlotte Kurs.
Dimensions of Local Authority: Mapping Local Political Institutions in Canada's Cities - Volume 57 Issue 1
Deutschland. Ein Drama in drei Akten.
That many Republicans want to end the nomination contest after only two small, nearly all white states, with no major American cities, have voted — tells us all we need to know about the Republican party.
Republicans literally don’t give a f**k what people of color or what people who live in urbanized America think or what their needs or policy priorities are — and urban areas are where most Americans live.
#UrbanPolitics #politics #USpol #USpolitics #elections
OnlineFirst - "Viral cash: Basic income trials, policy mutation, and post-austerity politics in U.S. cities" by Marc Doussard:
#urbanpolitics #policymobilities #basicincome #cashtransfers #COVID19
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X231203083
Emancipatory Urban Citizenship Regimes in Postpandemic #Catalonia, #Scotland, and #Wales
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/12/569
The End of #Devolution?
#Brexit #LevellingUp #Politics #State #UK #PoliticalGeography #UrbanPolitics
Wide tensions regarding the organization of nation-state power have been triggered over the last years in the UK and Spain. By contrast, in the UK, (i) the plebiscite on Scottish Independence has been characterized since 2014 so far by a regular hegemony of the SNP in Scotland, and (ii) more recently, distinct resilient responses to tackle COVID-19 have dramatically shifted perceptions about the potential constitutional arrangements in Wales partially opposing a state-centric vision of the UK. By contrast, the role played by the constitutionally illegal but socially constitutive referendum in Catalonia on 1 October 2017, remarkably provoked the re-emergence of the Spanish far-right narrative through the surge of the new political party called Vox. In both cases, the urban in Glasgow, Cardiff, and Barcelona has been shaping various oppositions to state-centric agendas, and such oppositions have shaped elections in the UK and Spain. This article sheds light on the distinct, emerging, and emancipatory urban citizenship regimes in Catalonia, Scotland, and Wales, particularly illustrating the roles that Barcelona, Glasgow, and Cardiff, respectively, are playing in articulating a counter-reaction by rescaling a state-centric vision. This article employs past elections’ evidence to illustrate such regimes amid postpandemic times in datafied states.
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