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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: AGENDAS FOR POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY -- 1 Human Territoriality: A Theory -- 2 A Materialist Framework for Political Geography -- 3 Critical Geopolitics: Discourse, Difference, and Dissent -- 4 Into the 1990s: A Gendered Agenda for Political Geography -- PART II: STATE TERRITORIALITY -- 5 The Evolution of the Concept of Territory -- 6 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System -- 7 Fences and Neighbours in the Postmodern World: Boundary Narratives in Political Geography -- 8 Refiguring the Geopolitical Landscape: Nation, "Transition" and Gendered Subjects in Post-Cold War Germany -- PART III: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBALIZATION -- 9 The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946-1994 -- 10 Disputing the Nature of the International in Political Geography: The Hettner-Lecture in Human Geography -- 11 Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in American Foreign Policy -- 12 Feminist Geopolitics Revisited: Body Counts in Iraq -- PART IV: INTERNAL TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCALES -- 13 Form, Process and the Political Organization of Space -- 14 Spaces of Dependence, Spaces of Engagement and the Politics of Scale, or: Looking for Local Polities -- 15 The Invention of Regions: Political Restructuring and Territorial Government in Western Europe -- 16 The Social Construction of Scale -- PART V: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION -- 17 People, Places and Regions: Exploring the Use of Multi-Level Modelling in the Analysis of Electoral Data -- 18 Collective Action and Rational Choice: Place, Community, and the Limits to Individual Self-Interest -- 19 Putting Politics in its Place: Baliapal, India, as a Terrain of Resistance -- 20 Publicity, Privacy, and Women's Political Action

Previous research into the community innovation process has tended to emphasize either intercommunity information flows and imitation or local need and political factors. This paper presents a conceptualization incorporating both sets of factors and stressing, in particular, the distinction between community innovations supported by a central pro pagator and those adopted solely on the basis of local initiative. In empirical analysis the former are represented by public housing and urban renewal, the latter by automated data processing and public water fluoridation. The major findings of the empirical analysis are that both information-related and local need and political factors are critical to the community innovation process, and that the distinction between sponsored and local initiative community innovations is particularly useful in explaining the decision to adopt.

MANY STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SOCIAL CONTEXT IN WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL LIVES AND THE EFFECT THIS HAS ON THEIR POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR. ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION, SOCIAL CONTEXT HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE SUBSTANTIAL ELECTORAL SIGNIFICANCE. BY APPLYING MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS TO AGGREGATE- AND INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL AUSTRALIAN AND BRITISH DATA, THESE CLAIMS ARE QUESTIONED. THE PAPER ARGUES, FIRSTLY, THAT FINDINGS WHICH HAVE EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT ARE GREATLY OVERESTIMATED AND CAUSED BY A FAILURE TO CONTROL FOR A SUFFICIENTLY WIDE RANGE OF VARIABLES; ONCE THESE CONTROLS ARE INTRODUCED, THE ELECTORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONTEXT DISAPPEARS IN BRITAIN, AND IS GREATLY REDUCED IN AUSTRALIA. SECONDLY, THE SMALL BUT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT EFFECT OF CONTEXT IN AUSTRALIA IS THE RESULT OF THE COMPULSORY VOTING SYSTEM IN THAT COUNTRY. IN BRITAIN, IT IS ARGUED THAT NON-VOTERS ARE MOST LIKELY TO TAKE THEIR ELECTORAL CUES FROM THEIR IMMEDIATE CONTEXT, BUT SINCE THEY ABSTAIN, THERE IS NO CONTEXTUAL EFFECT. IN AUSTRALIA, BY CONTRAST, THEY ARE FORCED TO VOTE BY LAW AND CAUSE THE SMALL CONTEXTUAL EFFECT FOUND THERE.

"Chapter 1 provides an overall conceptual map of the questions, debates, and empirical particulars raised by an investigation of global city-regions. The chapter ranges widely over many pertinent issues from the economic foundations of global city-regions to their emerging political relations, and if it strives to articulate definite points of view on these matters, it is in no sense designed to bring closure to this still emerging field of inquiry. As the expositions in the rest of the book unfold, numerous additional analytical and descriptive details are elaborated, and at the same time, significant divergenees of theoretical and political conviction become apparent. Chapter 1 offers a framework for accommodating these details and a backdrop against which the arguments and disagreements that run through the book as a whole can be evaluated. An integrated overview is thus provided, but without sacrificing the rich palette of varied opinion that exists about the social dynamics and meaning of these new geographical phenomena designated here global city-regions." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))