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The Politics of Incremental Progressivism
Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo
‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No. ‘For anyone interested in urban governance, The Politics of Incremental Progressivism is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. One could not ask for a more incisive, detailed and groundbreaking set of studies on urban transformation and the politics of change.’
This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.’
Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po CNRS research Professor, Dean Sciences Po Urban School, France
Patrick Heller, Lyn Cross Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University, USA
Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques (Edited by), E Cesar Leão Marq (Author)
9781119647874, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 22 April 2021
304 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.482 kg
THE POLITICS OF INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVISM ‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No. ‘For anyone interested in urban governance, The Politics of Incremental Progressivism is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. One could not ask for a more incisive, detailed and groundbreaking set of studies on urban transformation and the politics of change.’ Large metropolises of the Global South are usually portrayed as ungovernable. The Politics of Incremental Progressivism analyzes urban policies in São Paulo – one of the biggest and most complex Southern cities – not only challenging those views, but showing the recent occurrence of progressive change. This book develops the first detailed and systematic account of the policies and politics that construct, maintain and operate a large Southern metropolis. The chapters cover the policies of bus and subway transportation, traffic control, waste collection, development licensing, public housing and large urban projects, additionally to budgeting, electoral results and government formation and dynamics. This important book contributes to the understanding of how the city is governed, what kinds of policies its governments construct and deliver and, more importantly, under what conditions it produces redistributive change in the direction of policies that reduce its striking social and urban inequalities.
This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.’
Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po CNRS research Professor, Dean Sciences Po Urban School, France
Patrick Heller, Lyn Cross Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University, USA
Notes on Contributors vii List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ix Series Editors’ Preface x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I Urban Politics and Political Institutions 43 1 Governments, Mayors and Policies 45 2 The Politics of Executive-Legislative Relations 69 3 The Politics of Municipal Budgets 92 Part II Governing Urban Services 117 4 Struggling to Replace the Car Paradigm: Politics and Mobility Change 119 5 Increasingly Governing Bus Services Through Policy Instruments 136 6 Technocratic Decisions and Financial Arrangements in Subway Services 155 7 The Incremental Politics of Waste Management Regulation 175 Part III Governing Land and Housing 193 8 Continuities and Changes in the Diversification of Public Housing 195 9 Developers and Politicians in the Institutionalizing of Development Regulation 217 10 Conflicts and Incremental Change in Urban Renewal Instruments 235 11 Circulation of Institutional Formats in Urban Regeneration: From São Paulo to Porto Maravilha 257 Conclusion: The Political Production of Incremental Progressivism 278 Index 287
Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler
Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Telma Hoyler
Ursula Dias Peres
Carolina Requena
Marcos Lopes Campos
Daniela Costanzo
Samuel Ralize de Godoy
Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques and Magaly Marques Pulhez
Telma Hoyler
Betina Sarue and Stefano Pagin
Betina Sarue
Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
