Garbaye Getting Into Local Power

The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5554-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

This book presents a comparison of the patterns of ethnic minoritypolitics in British and French city politics.
* A comparison of the participation of ethnic minorities inBritish and French cities
* Includes direct comparisons of particular cities Birmingham,Lille and Roubaix
* Shows how ethnic and cultural diversity translates intopolitical conflict in different political systems
* Considers styles of political mobilisation of ethnic minoritiesin the context of urban political systems, as well as thestrategies used by party leaders and to manage ethnic diversity inpolitical competition
* Analyses how ethnic and cultural diversity in urban societiestranslates into conflictual politics
* Enhances our understanding of local politics and of theevolution of political representation in industrialiseddemocracies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garbaye, Romain

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps.
Foreword by Patrick Weil.
Series Editors' Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1 Historical Instititionalism and the Comparison of Local CasesStrategies of Management of Ethnic Conflict and HistoricalInstitutionalism.
2 The British Policy Framework: Liberal Citizenship Regime,Depoliticization and the Race-Relationism of British Cities.
3 The French Policy Framework: Planned Migration, XenophobicPolitics, and Durable Political Exclusion.
4 Birmingham: Inner-City Labour Politics and Pluri-EthnicGovernment.
5 Lille: Machine Politics and Exclusion of Minorities in theFrench Municipal System.
6 Roubaix: Inclusion Through Neighbourhood Groups and an OpenMunicipal Game.
Conclusion.
Appendix: Interviews and Sources.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Romain Garbaye is Maître de Conférences at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He obtained his DPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford, and he has held a Jean Monnet post-doctoral fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on the politics of ethnic minorities in European cities.