Regulation, Regime, and Practice in Urban Politics
- 1 January 1997
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
- p. 122-144
- https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483327808.n7
Abstract
In this chapter, I want to examine the relationship between urban regime theory and regulation theory in terms of their theoretical commensurability. However attractive the integration of the two perspectives may appear, it can only provide a sound framework for understanding urban politics if there is at least no contradiction between the conceptual bases of the different elements. As regulation theory has many versions, I begin by outlining briefly my understanding of regulation theory and of its relationship to urban politics. I go on to suggest that this account, although helpful, has inherent limits, which derive from the methodology of regulation theory itself. One question addressed by this book is whether urban ...Keywords
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