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Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Framework for Global Comparison

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Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis

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Within interconnected regions like metropolitan areas, configurations of multilevel institutions, policies and governance practices comprise a regime of place equality. These regimes shape markets and intergovernmental relations among localities, and ultimately, local policy outcomes. In the model proposed by Tiebout, local voter choices and markets among places determine the allocation of public goods and tax burdens across the region. Under the conditions of territorial inequality that have become characteristic of metropolitan settlement, a regime based on this model offers advantages for relatively privileged communities and compounds the disadvantages of underprivileged ones. In other regimes, egalitarian or compensatory regimes impose equal conditions or compensate for local disadvantage. Place equality regimes are a critical but understudied component of welfare states, market capitalism and central–local relations.

The author thanks Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, Toshiya Kitayama, Daniel Kübler, Eran Razin and Marta Arretche for contributions to the analytical framework and hypotheses.

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    Jefferey M. Sellers

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    Jefferey M. Sellers

  2. University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Marta Arretche

  3. University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Daniel Kübler

  4. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Eran Razin

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Sellers, J.M. (2017). Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Framework for Global Comparison. In: Sellers, J., Arretche, M., Kübler, D., Razin, E. (eds) Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis. Comparative Territorial Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57378-0_1

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