If Mayors Ruled the World

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If Mayors Ruled the World

In the face of the most perilous challenges of our timeâ€”climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and peopleâ€”the nations of the world seem paralyzed.Â The problems are too big, too interdependent,Â too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job.Â Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding toÂ transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of a dozen mayors around the worldâ€”courageous, eccentric, or both at onceâ€”If Mayors Ruled the World presents a compelling new vision of governance for the coming century. Barber makes a persuasive case that the city is democracyâ€™s best hope in a globalizing world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so.

Country	USA
Author	Barber Benjamin R.
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780300164831
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Yale University Press
Manufacturer	Yale University Press
NumberOfPages	433
PublicationDate	2013-10-31
Publisher	Yale University Press
ReleaseDate	2013-10-01
Studio	Yale University Press

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