Professor Scott Bollens lectured on the subject of "Governing Polarized Cities. "
His lecture took place on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at 12:00PM in the PPEC Conference Room, Suite 130 St. Leonard's Court, 1st Floor (map - 3819-31 Chestnut Street).
"Governing Polarized Cities"
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Abstract:
This article provides a comparative analysis of different institutional approaches to dealing with antagonistic group identity claims on the city. I discuss Brussels, Johannesburg, Belfast, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Kirkuk. These cities are broken down into three categories—(1) cities that have utilized power sharing and forms of transitional democratization effectively enough that stability of the local and national state has occurred, (2) cities that have made some progress but are vulnerable to regression because local political arrangements are not sufficiently stabilizing, and (3) cities where power sharing is itself contested and a potential contributor to further instability. The case studies of local governance of polarized cites reported point to their institutional diversity, frequent fragility, and the evolutionary nature of even the “best case” examples. A difficult predicament is faced by local government reform in cities of inter-group conflict. Shared local governance arrangements need to produce measurable differences on the ground in the short term sufficient to allow institutional legitimacy. Yet, necessary power-sharing limitations on local democracy may make local government less effective in producing these needed tangible changes.
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Scott Bollens is the Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation and
a Professor in the Department of Planning, Policy & Design at the University of
California, Irvine. His specializations include ethnicity and urban planning,
urban growth policy, metropolitan governance, intergovernmental approaches to
planning, with a focus on the questions (1) what is the role and influence of
urban planning and policy amidst deep inter-group conflict, (2) can bottom-up
urbanism contribute to top-down peacemaking and efforts to democratize a
multinational society, (3) what is the relationship between how governance is
structured in metropolitan areas and the equality/inequality of opportunity
across individuals and localities? He is the author of Cities, Nationalism, and
Democratization (2007), On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Conflict in Jerusalem
and Belfast (2000), and Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Belfast and
Johannesburg (1999) as well as numerous articles in top journals.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2008. "The City, Substate Nationalism, and European Governance." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 14, 2: 189-222.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2008. "Urbanism, Political Uncertainty, and Democratization. Urban Studies 45, 5/6: 1255-1289.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2007. "Urban Governance at the Nationalistic Divide: Coping with Group-Based Claims. Journal of Urban Affairs 29, 3: 229-253.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2007. Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization. Oxford and New York: Routledge.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2006. "Urban Planning and Peace Building. Progress in Planning. 66, 2: 67-139.
- Goldstein, Harvey A., Scott Bollens, Chris Silver, and Edward Feser. 2006. "An Experiment in the Internationalization of Planning Education: The NEURUS Program." Journal of Planning Education and Research 25, 3: 349-363.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2003. "In Through the Back Door: Social Equity and Regional Governance." Housing Policy Debate 13, 4, 631-657. Note: A featured forum article with companion commentary articles by Myron Orfield and Mark Alan Hughes.
- Guzzetta, Jacqueline D. and Scott A. Bollens. 2003. "Urban Planners' Skills and Competencies: Are We Different from Other Professions? Does Context Matter? Do We Evolve?" Journal of Planning Education and Research 23, 1: 96-106.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2002. "Urban Planning and Inter-Group Conflict: Confronting a Fractured Public Interest." Journal of the American Planning Association 68, 1.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2002. "City and Soul: Sarajevo, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, Nicosia." City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 6, 1: 169-187.
- Scott A. Bollens. 2000. On Narrow Ground: Urban Policy and Conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1999. Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies: Belfast and Johannesburg. Boulder, CO and Oxford, UK: Westview Press.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Ethnic Stability and Urban Reconstruction: Policy Dilemmas in Polarized Cities." Comparative Political Studies 31, 6: 683-713.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Uncovering the Urban Dimension in Nationalistic Conflict: Jerusalem and Belfast Compared." Terrorism and Political Violence 10, 1: 1-38.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Urban Planning Amidst Ethnic Conflict: Jerusalem and Johannesburg." Urban Studies 35, 4: 729-50.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1998. "Urban Policy in Ethnically Polarized Societies." International Political Science Review 19, 2: 187-215.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1997. "Concentrated Poverty and Metropolitan Equity Strategies." Stanford Law and Policy Review. 8, 2: 11-23.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1997. "Fragments of Regionalism: The Limits of Southern California Governance." Journal of Urban Affairs 19, 1: 105-122.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1993. "Restructuring Land Use Governance." Journal of Planning Literature. 7, 3: 211-226.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1992. "State Growth Management: Intergovernmental Frameworks and Policy Objectives." Journal of the American Planning Association 58, 4: 454-466.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1990. "Constituencies for Limitation and Regionalism: Approaches to Growth Management." Urban Affairs Quarterly 26, 1: 46-67.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1988. "Municipal Decline and Inequality in American Suburban Rings: 1960?1980." Regional Studies 22, 4: 277-285.
- Scott A. Bollens and David R. Godschalk. 1987. "Tracking Land Supply for Growth Management." Journal of the American Planning Association 53, 3: 315-327.
- Scott A. Bollens. 1986. "A Political-Ecological Analysis of Income Inequality in the Metropolitan Area." Urban Affairs Quarterly 22, 2: 221-241.
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