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Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Yale University Press
November 2013
On Sale: October 23, 2013
433 pages
ISBN: 030016467X
EAN: 9780300164671
Kindle: B00FOR56YY
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Non-Fiction
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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