If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities Benjamin R. Barber

A distinguished and innovative thinker shows why cities and the mayors who run them can provide answers to the world's most urgent problems while rescuing democracy for the twenty-first century. Citing 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 - Benjamin R.Barber demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of more than a dozen mayors around the world - courageous, eccentric, or both at once - 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 democracy's best hope in a globalizing world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (Benjamin R. Barber)