What is it about?
Looking through the prism of emerging Information Technology (IT) clusters, at the fringe areas of three Indian cities, my research shows how variations in provincial-state and city level political cultures influence urban economic trajectory by mediating forces that emerge out of global economic demand and a uniform national policy regime.
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Why is it important?
my research shows that although globalization and neo-liberal political ideas have become the de-facto norm, at the upper scales of governance, the issue of ‘last mile connectivity’ – that is, how such capitalist processes translate at the urban scale, depends to a considerable extent on the local political actors and planning institutions. The local governing regimes play a crucial role in mediating differences local communities and global corporate forces.
Perspectives
Globalizing cities in the emerging Asian economies are increasingly facing tough competition from cities within their countries to attract global investments. In this competitive scenario, some cities are more successful than others in attracting global capital, even though they operate under similar macroeconomic and regulatory environment. This spurred me to examine the roles played by the local political actors in steering the economic policy directions of their cities. And also to find out, whether we can measure the political-economic characteristics of these newly globalizing Asian cities, through the same yardstick of the well established global cities of the Western world or do we require a new framework?
Dr Tathagata Chatterji
Xavier Institute of Management
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This page is a summary of: Modes of Governance and Local Economic Development: An Integrated Framework for Comparative Analysis of the Globalizing Cities of India, Urban Affairs Review, May 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1078087416650044.
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