254 - Section on Community and Urban Sociology Paper Session. Transformations in Contemporary Urban Governance: New Theoretical and Empirical Directions

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Urban governance has been undergoing many transformations over the last 30 years. The role of private firms, nonprofits, and management consultants has expanded greatly. Philanthropies and government-sponsored organizations continue to play a large role. Municipal agencies and bureaucracies have themselves been changing. While urbanists now take organizations seriously as entities with distinct logics and productive capacities, theoretical development around urban organizations needs to continue, particularly to make sense of much new and emerging empirical work. More importantly, our theories of urban governance are dated and often describe institutional arrangements that no longer have the central role they once did, if they continue to exist at all. This panel invites papers that offer new empirical work on urban governance and organizations, as well as theoretical interventions that build upon recent work on urban organizations and governance.

Sub Unit

• Section on Community and Urban Sociology / Transformations in Contemporary Urban Governance: New Theoretical and Empirical Directions

Session Organizers

• Nicole P. Marwell, University of Chicago

• Michael McQuarrie, London School of Economics

Presider

• Michael McQuarrie, London School of Economics

Individual Presentations

• When Garbage Trucks Meet Tricycles: How Unofficial Practices Frustrate Global City Plans - Dana Kornberg, University of Michigan

• Institutions in the Integral State: What New York City’s Parks Signal for Contemporary Urban Governance - John Krinsky, The City College of New York; Maud Simonet, IDHE/CNRS Paris

• The Administration of Hospital and Jail Overcrowding and the Illusion of Policy Success - Armando Lara-Millan, University of California - Berkeley

• A Seat at the Table: Organizations, Legitimacy, and Power in Urban Governance - Jeremy R. Levine, University of Michigan