GGRC13H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 2: Gil J Wolman, Social Science, Public Choice
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Making sense of urban power: cities, politics and power- parker, s. The increasing interconnectedness of nations, regions and cities have de-territorial and delocalized the nature of politics and the organization of politics and power in the city. Politics is not just a question of resource distribution; it is also about how various forms of power constitute political resources in their own right. Class and status can be just as empowering or restricting as the occupation of administrative or political office, and of course in the real world such categories inevitably overlap. Political theory and urban politics: urban politics and policy- wolman, h and. Normative theories are those which describe the world as we would like to see it- that is to say they are essentially prescriptive in nature. Empirical theories are those which attempt to describe and analyze the world in real terms.
