Abstract
Not all politics is local. Not even local politics is necessarily local. The reemergence of local politics is not comparable to the nationalization of politics but is rather an element making multilevel policies more or less interconnected. This global review (not including North America) suggests that the rise of local politics is explained by three set of processes—( a) democratization, including protest, ( b) economic globalization, urbanization, and the deepening of territorial inequalities, and ( c) decentralization or deconcentration and the rise of local governance and policies. The rise of local politics is not a revival of the past but an element of the politics of scale taking. All over the world, local politics is increasingly about policies, governance, and political choice.
Highlights
The reemergence of local politics implies a temporal dimension
This resurgence of local politics signals an agenda of research in terms of policy and spatial differentiation; local autonomy; and the multiplication of political regulations, formal and informal, that political scientists have been late to take into account
In India, despite the decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, politics remains organized at the level of the states and the central state
Summary
Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 2021.24:345-363. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by 3.95.188.45 on 11/08/21. See copyright for approved use. The Annual Review of Political Science is online at polisci.annualreviews.org https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-041719102158 Keywords local politics, globalization, democratization, decentralization, inequalities, protest, cities
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