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Building The Capacity To Govern The Australian Metropolis: Challenges And Opportunities, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Building The Capacity To Govern The Australian Metropolis: Challenges And Opportunities, Pauline M. Mcguirk
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This paper traces key policy challenges facing Australia's metropolitan cities as a result of multiscaled shifts in their governance contexts. These shifts, related both to the neoliberal erosion of a national commitment to universal social provision and the adoption of a 'competitive city' governance paradigm at the urban scale, have produced a set of governance challenges, particularly concerning urban social inclusion and cohesion. Moreover, a range of institutional obstacles continues to hinder the generation of urban governance capacity to address these challenges. The paper works through the nature of these obstacles and takes a pragmatic approach to identifying opportunities to …