Local politics, global impacts : steps to a multi-disciplinary analysis of scales / by Olivier Charnoz, Virginie Diaz Pedregal and Alan L. Kolata Ashgate.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fractal Social Facts : a Durkheimian Model for a Globalized Era / Jacques Plouin -- The Scale Issue in the Global International Environment Governance : For a Transdisciplinary Perspective / François Lerin -- Corruption, Scale and Governance in India / Arjun Appadurai -- Drugs, Local Politics and the Subversion of Global Counter-narcotics Ideology in Burma's Eastern Borderlands, 1988-2012 / Patrick Meehan -- The Political Economy of China's Urban Expansion and its Climate Cost : insights from Nanjing / Jie Yu and Olivier Charnoz -- Scalar Effects in Transnational Networks : The Arab Spring and the Global Response / Nikolaos Zahariadis and Akis Kalaitzidis -- The Local Power Effects of Global Discourses : a Methodological Enquiry into 'Community Participation' / Olivier Charnoz -- A Containment Tool in Changing Hands : the Global Discourse on Participation in Latin America / Olivier Charnoz -- The Effects of Donor's Ownership and Participatory Policy ideas on Local Power Structures : A Case Study of informal settlements in Nairobi / Andrea Rigon -- Ownership and Participatory Processes : from Global Motto to Local Challenges : The Case of a Key Poverty Reduction Program in Ethnic Minority Areas of Vietnam /Christian Culas, Mireille Razafindrakoto and François Roubaud -- Globalization and Domestic Politics : A Call for Theoretical Reorientation / Lloyd Gruber.