Presentation and Launch of the Book 'The Politics of Incremental Progressivism: Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo' with Eduardo Marques, Center for Metropolitan Studies, University of São Paulo

Date: 
9 Septembre, 2021 - 17:30 - 19:15

Seminar Cities are back in town

Sciences Po, Webinar, Compulsory Registration

This seminar presents the main findings of the recently published book The Politics of Incremental Progressivism: Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo. Large metropolises of the Global South are usually portrayed as ungovernable. By mobilizing process-tracing analysis of 31 redistributive urban programs in eight policy sectors, the book not only challenges those views but shows the recent occurrence of a slow and contentious but clear incremental process of progressive policy change. The book constructs conceptual bridges between political science and urban studies to explain progressive policy change, mobilizing processes, and mechanisms associated with both urban politics and policies. The analysis contributes to understanding how cities are governed, what kind of policies their governments construct and deliver, and, more importantly, under what conditions they produce policy changes that reduce their striking social and urban inequalities. 

Speaker

MarquesEduardo Marques, Full Professor and Researcher at the Department of Political Science, Center for Metropolitan Studies, University of São Paulo

Eduardo Marques is a Full professor at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at USP. He holds a PhD in social sciences from Unicamp with a research period at Columbia University, a post-doc at Cebrap and visiting researcher periods at Sciences Po, UCL and UC Berkeley.  He is a member of the editorial boards of IJURR, Urban Affairs Review and the Strategic Council of Sciences Po’s Urban School. He was the president of the RC-21 of the International Sociological Association (2014/2018) and trustee of the IJURR Foundation. He has notably published As políticas da política - Desigualdades e inclusão nos governos do PSDB e do PT with Marta Arretche and Eduardo Faria (Universidade Estadual Paulista University Press, 2019) and São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities (Routledge, 2016).

Discussion

Patrick Le Galès, CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics at Sciences Po, Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics & Dean of the Urban School 

For more information: citiesarebackintown@sciencespo.fr 

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