If Mayors Ruled the World
If Mayors Ruled the World 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…
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If Mayors Ruled the World
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. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state.
Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. 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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