Political Change and Local Governance in Emerging Cities
Specific Aims
Project Status
Develop a comparative framework for the study of emerging cities across the world;
Explain the variation in governance across and within emerging cities, and;
Distinguish what is "urban" about emerging cities.
Currently the three teams (Ghana, Tunisia, Brazil) are implementing focus group discussions to gain a better understanding of THING. We are also working on the first paper for the project which will lay the conceptual foundation for all future work.
The Team
Jeffrey Paller
Researcher at the Governance and Local Development Institute at the University of Gothenburg and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.
George Bob-Milliar
Associate Professor in the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Ellen Lust
Founding Director of the Governance and Local Development Institute at Yale University (est. 2013), and then at the University of Gothenburg (est. 2015), and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg.
Instissar Kherigi
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law at Southern Mediterranean University.
Alison Post
Travers Family Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair of Political Science and Associate Professor of Global Metropolitan Studies at UC-Berkeley
Lucas Martins Novaes
Associate Professor at Insper Institute of Education and Research, São Paulo.
Acknowledgements
This project is supported by the Political Change and Local Governance in Emerging Cities (Swedish Research Council – 2022-02023). PI: Erica Ann Metheney.
The researchers would like to thank Rose Shaber-Twedt for administrative support, and Samuel Wakuma for data collection support.