Governance on the ground : innovations and discontinuities in cities of the developing world / edited by Patricia L. McCarney and Richard E. Stren.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: toward the comparative study of urban governance / Richard E. Stren -- Confronting critical disjunctures in the governance of cities / Patricia L. McCarney -- Ethnographies of governance: urban spaces and actors in the Middle East / Seteney Shami -- Bellavista: local political activism in defense of a Barrio / Lucy Winchester, Teresa Cèceres, and Alfredo Rodri̕guez -- Democratic governance and participation tales of two cities / Renato Raul Boschi -- Fiscal innovations and urban governance / Om Prakash Mathur -- Rethinking the enabling strategy in urban housing: state civil society dynamics in Southeast Asia / Emma Porio -- Reforming governance in Dhaka, Bangladesh / Nazrul Islam with Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Nurul Islam Nazem, and Mohammad Habibur Rahman -- My soul I can see: the limits of governing African cities in a context of globalization and complexity / Mark sSilling, Abdoumaliq Simone, and Firoz Khan -- Governance and municipal management in Mexico and Colombia between clientelist practices and new forms of democratic government / Emilio Duhau and Martha Schteingart.