Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World. Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities, Yale University Press
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In the face of the most perilous challenges
of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of
drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The
problems are too big, too interdependent, 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.
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 to transnational problems more effectively than nation-states
mired in ideological infighting and sovereign rivalries. Featuring
profiles of 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.
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