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PURC · The Politics of Urban Regime Construction in Spain: 2015-2019

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-11-01 → 2026-07-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 165 313 €
Участници: 2
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Политическите промени в 18 испански града между 2015 и 2023 г. показват как местните власти се опитват да въведат повече демокрация и социална справедливост. Анализът помага да се разбере кои условия са необходими за устойчиво развитие и екологична устойчивост в градската среда.

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Резултати накратко

The Politics of Urban Regime Construction in Spain: 2015-2019

PURC examined attempts by Spanish ‘Radical Municipalist’ administrations to transform urban political economies towards deepened democracy, sustainability and social justice between 2015 and 2023. In 2015, social movement-led left coalitions were elected to city hall 18 Spanish cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, including large urban centres such as Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Zaragoza. This constituted a political wave of astonishing proportions, unseating long standing neoliberal regimes from urban administration. These new city governments aimed to move cities in more progressive directions through policies and reforms harnessing participatory governance, the co-operative economy, and public sector reform. Their successes were met by national and international enthusiasm to move beyond neoliberal austerity and instigate more egalitarian and sustainable political economies. However, many of them lost of office in the 2019 municipal elections. So, why were some coalitions more durable and effective than others? What does this imply regarding the conditions for progressive urban change? PURC provided the first systematic analysis of these “cities for change”, using an urban regime theoretic framework and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to explain degrees of change across the entire population (n18)6 of cases. The projects’ theoretical framework, case sample and research design provided a unique opportunity to rigorously develop knowledge that is critical to democratic revitalization, environmental sustainability and social justice.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The Politics of Urban Regime Contestation provides the first systematic assessment of attempts by Spanish New Municipalist movement-parties to consolidate progressive urban regime change between 2015 and 2019. New Municipalism represented a political wave of astonishing proportions, unseating neoliberal regimes led by traditional political parties in eighteen cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, including key urban centres such as Barcelona and Madrid. Municipalist administrations experimented with the co-operative economy, sustainability initiatives, feminism and democratic revitalization. They produced multiple cases of attempted urban regime change: understood as the process of creating resource coalitions capable of transforming urban governance and political economy. This study provides novel and timely data and theory to understand the politics of urban regime contestation. The success of municipalist platforms in 2015 provided inspiration for an international movement, but is marked nationally by widespread electoral defeat in 2019. Municipalist administrations achieved electoral continuity in just two cases: Barcelona and Cadiz. Outcome variation provides opportunities for comparative analysis into the dynamics of urban governance continuity and change. Theoretically, urban regime theory is used in-order-to understand how New Municipalist coalitions and agendas interacted with urban governance relationships and institutions. The project builds on empirical pilot research into two cases, using a tried and tested methodology, recently published in Urban Studies, adding Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explain varying degrees of success across the entire population of cases. In using this theory and method the project promises to provide an over-arching yet detailed assessment of the topic. It will develop knowledge critical for deepened urban democracy, sustainability and social justice: a valuable contribution to Horizon Europes' strategic ambitions.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · Cerdanyola Del VallesКоординаторИспания
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON · SOUTHAMPTONОбединеното кралство