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Cities in the International Marketplace Chapter 7 (Kantor an
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 3
09/14/2016

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offset
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enlisting intergovernmental aid and to use available resources to bend negotiations with private capital
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accommodate
Definition
use intergovernmental aid to ease the pain of market disadvantages
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resistance possible
submit to the marketplace
Definition
do whatever is necessary to facilitate business
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grantsman regime
Definition
seek to offset the market disadvantageous and nurture development through public intervention
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clientelist regime
Definition
accommodate market disadvantages and rely on public intervention to ease the pain
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challenger regimes
Definition
take on the system and attempt to bypass/combat market constraints
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vendor regimes
Definition
comply with market demands and make few demands upon business
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grantsman regime
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oriented toward a single driving resources
(intergovernmental support)
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Gaston Deferre
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Marseilles 1953
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Deferre
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built parks, rebuilt city infrastructure, modern housing, extended highways, opened up southern portion of the city
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systeme D
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carefully balancing and rewarding the city's major constituencies
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triad of support
1) economic
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supplied by tax supported budgets
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2) civic
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built from the city's dense network of neighborhood organizations and social clubs
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3) political
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neighborhood mayors
Socialist Party
Le Provencal (Deferre's own newspaper)
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Neutralized Marseille's bourgeoisie
Definition
appointed adjunct mayor to maintain relations with banks and chamber of commerce
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political courtesy
Definition
every gov franc spent on center matched several times over for the rest of the city
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systeme D
Definition
fueled by state funds
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1980 election
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socialists run national
Deferre dispensed with center-right coalition
Entered coalition with communists
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third way
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designed neither for untrammeled capitalism nor doctrinaire socialism
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EuroMediterraneen (EuroMed)
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massive renewal project that ties the city center to its port (public led)
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Our future is "but as a great Mediterranean metropolis"
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Term
1995 Marseilles
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arrears (owe $) 12,777 francs per inhabitant
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better housing and a modern infrastructure helped residents, but the city lost population and private-sector jobs
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p228
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1988 National Front
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Jean-Marie Le Pen >28%
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upon taking office in 1995 we had to deal with 43 years of municipal socialism or crypto-socialism. And we had to deal with principles that were not our own, particularly on matters of urban development and economic policy
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Gaudin p.229
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recentralization of the city
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Gaidin sought to stimulate the real estate market
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Etablissement d'Amenagement Publique (EPAD)
Definition
public development corporation
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French EPADs
Definition
substantial public funding and considerable liberty of action
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Gaudin
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kept a bloated public work force intact, which today reaches 12,700 employees
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Grantsman politics (Glasgow's Scottish Enterprise)
Definition
years of deindustrialization have left local officials with a rump economy that is shrinking and out of balance
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the result
Definition
regime politics converge on a political coalition made up of a hierarchy of public institutions led by powerful agency Scottish Enterprise of SE
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SE
Definition
Scottish Enterprise
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SDA
Definition
Scottish Development Agency
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SE and SDA
Definition
had authority to override planning decisions of local and regional councils in order to realize objective although they were expected to consult with local authorities and build a network of cooperative planning in the regions
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Scottish public ownership
Definition
until recent years, most of the large industries in Scotland such as mining, steel, railways and transportation
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GDA
Definition
Glasgow Development Agency
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GDA
Definition
essentially pursues a grants politics in concert with the public player
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1996
Definition
reorganization of Scottish local government abolished the regional councils
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1999
Definition
Scottish parliament with minor taxing powers was created to serve as a regional legislature, firmly recognizing the Scottish drive for greater autonomy
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Labour Party 1990s
Definition
Jeanne McFadden and Pat Lally
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Labour controlled District and Regional Councils
Definition
put together a year-long series of special cultural events celebrating the city's artistic achievements to attract tourists and businesses
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dual strategy
Definition
Glasgow's political entrepreneurs must play by rules set by more powerful regional politicians, whose policy priorities have shifted over time. This means that regime leaders have accommodated increasingly market-centered policy directions
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SE policies forced Glasgow's local grant advocates - the GDA and the city government to adopt its dual strategy
Definition
this mean catering to both market and social centered constituencies
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SE's dual approach
Definition
officials work to boost the downtown as a cultural capital, while attending to the social miseries of decline through small-scale neighborhood social programs
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Tory neoliberalism
Definition
clearly favored the idea of placing greater emphasis on using commercial efficiency, rather than social equity, in revitalizing urban economies
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Following Thatcher's election
Definition
Scottish system of public-led regional planning was left intact for almost twelve years after Thatcher's election and then merely reorganized with a more private-like veneer
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Scotland has been able to maintain political prviliges
Definition
including its own ministry, a separate legal system, a distinctive school system, and special housing agencies and programs among other forms of autonomy
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Tony Blair's Labour government
Definition
supported the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 precisely to deal with the nationalist drift in Scotland
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Once Glaslow was made dependent upon a regional governmental approach
Definition
its fate hinged upon how these officials would view assistance to a poor central city. Over time, they saw assistance to Glasgow more as a liability than an asset in their struggle to promote the Scottish economy
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its need to achieve regional growth
Definition
regardless of where it takes place - is a powerful constraint
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As long as private sector investors
Definition
believed to prefer sites outside of Glasgow, regional officials find it difficult to work again this market orientation
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Braddock machine
Definition
kept members content with patronage, graft, and incremental gains. For their part the Tories accepted mild social intervention
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Industrial life
Definition
estimated 51% of manufacturing firms were absentee owned; by the 1970s that proportion has risen to 71%
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Liberals
Definition
took up the cause of community politics and began battling for neighborhood revitalization and rent stability
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Hung Councils
Definition
between 1974 and 1983 no single party held real control and Liverpool became paralyzed
Term
lost decade
Definition
1974-1983. municipal services lapsed, public building went unrepaired, the schools system continued to deteriorate and there was little room for planning much less for economic progress
Term
Trotskyites called Militant Tendency
Definition
national group. new recruits were drawn from the trade unions
Term
1978
Definition
social workers went on prolonged strikes over salary issues followed by secretaries and typists who also struck over wages
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1981
Definition
Granby ward, known also as Toxteth exploded. A local policeman had shot a black youth and furious rioting quickly broke out
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Michael Heseltine
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named himself minister for Merseyside
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Mercyside Development Corporation (MDC)
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Term
May 1983
Definition
Labour 51/92 council seats
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Liverpool
Definition
paired down or canceled plans for spending. Resorted to creative accounting by using reserve funds to reduce the deficit and recalculating figures for inflation
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Thatcher
Definition
made no secret of her displeasure at having to deal with a bunch of left-wing rogues
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1984
Definition
Liverpool had prepared a go-for-bust budget. Led by Militant, the council adopted an Urban Regeneration Strategy (URS) which pumped the city with public spending
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British Law
Definition
refusing to set a tax rate is an act of willful misconduct subject to removal from office and severe penalties
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Willful misconduct
Definition
district auditor charged 47 Labour councilors
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Mainstream Labour
Definition
renounced Militant and expelled the radicals from the party
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Liberal Democrats
Definition
recognize that market forces will not catapult the city into prosperity. Lib Dems do appreciate the dynamics of free enterprise
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hot lines
Definition
business incubators
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Naples
Definition
regime politics mostly seeks to accommodate, not challenge the city's decay
Term
ambitious politicians
Definition
generally see local and regional politics as way stations to the power and fortunes of national officialdom
Term
Party factions and constant manuevering
Definition
among political chieftains for pretty advantage are a fundamental part of the system's power are unable to maintain the alliances necessary to govern
Term
capi-elettori
Definition
electoral agents
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grandi-elettori
Definition
boss agents
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Naples
Definition
has weak civic group life, many voluntary associations serve as extension of party leaders who frequently head the local clubs and associations. They are used more to promote the careers of individuals rather than the interest of the group
Term
Clientelismo
Definition
works in 2 directions. Once focuses on using the public sector to maintain and expand the horizontal networks of clients that form the bade of political cooperation. The other seeks to manage the supply of resources through the maintenance of vertical political networks that bring together national and local-party power brokers
Term
Reconstruction
Definition
enables vast amounts of reconstruction assistance to line the pockets of local politicians and their clientele even though Naples was not particularly hard hit by the earthquake
Term
overlapping networks of politicians
Definition
ensure city access to ill-monitored emergency aid programs. This lasted for a dozen years. Various laws were written so that there was a wall of separation between national overseers and those implementing projects
Term
political free-for all broke out
Definition
due to huge sums of money that poured into the region and restrictions were lifted by Rome
Term
larger firms from the North
Definition
subcontracted with smaller companies (often owned by the mob) and made payments to obtain the consent of local Camorra bosees in the work zones. Local politicians acted as brokers by distributing and extracting payoffs from all of these players for their services. Costs quickly inflated.
Term
legal and illegal
Definition
business interests freely mixed
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Centro Dirizionale
Definition
urban renewal project remains only half finished
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corruption scandals
Definition
sent scores of Neapolitan politicians to jail, new electoral laws were passed and voters punished incumbent politicians
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Reinvigorated old neglected construction projects
Definition
in some cases he needed to do little more than open virtually finished roadways, swimming pools, sewers, and other improvements that had been ignored during the go-go days of reconstruction and corruption
Term
G7 meeting Naples - 1994
Definition
new money became available from the national government to clean up the city
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vendor regimes
Definition
seek solutions to their problems by marketing public asset for whatever can be obtained
Term
1967
Definition
hot July morning rioting broke out in Detroit after police raided after-hours drinking club
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Detroit
Definition
lacks strong indigenous black middle class. lack of educated base limits the ability to generate home grown small business
Term
Detroit mayor
Definition
borrowed money, tapped in to city surpluses and used bonding authority to house the city's sports teams. Set a precedent. There will never again be a stadium built by private enterprise
Term
Detroit
Definition
city responded when General Motors was looking for a new plant site
Term
Central Industrial Park
Economic Development Corporation
Poletown Neighborhood Council
Definition
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