This chapter reviews the development of regime theory and the theory of hegemony,
compares and contrasts these approaches, and identifies their implications for the analysis …

Foucauldian and neo-Gramscian perspectives have been very influential in contemporary
urban studies. Though these approaches differ in very significant ways, they have in …

Network theories of urban politics, such as urban regime theory, prospered greatly amid the
painful crisis of Marxism. Their central premise is that power is dispersed and hence that the …

The perspective on urban regimes presented here is based on a neo-Gramscian reading of
the regulation approach as well as a classically Gramscian account of the reciprocal …

The literature on UK urban governance is dominated by two contrasting strands ofthought.
One strand of scholarship, most notably Rhodes (1996, 1997, 1999), emphasiseshorizontal …

Over the last two decades, urban regime theory has become one of the most dominant
paradigms of thought in urban studies. In particular, regime theory offers a complex account …

This title was first published in 2001. During the 1990s, urban regeneration partnerships
proliferated in the UK. It is now commonplace for many individuals and organizations …

This paper examines recent theoretical exchanges around urban politics that have taken
place between US and UK academics and policy makers. Urban regime theory is outlined …

In the transition to an internationalised world, globalisation and the widespread acceptance
of market forces as the dom-inant motor for economic growth, have re-problematised the …