City Politics During an Era of Global Populism

Dear Colleagues,

As populist leaders, parties and ideas grow in prominence internationally, cities face a new set of challenges and opportunities. This Special Issue analyzes how cities have influenced and/or been affected by this rise of political discontent. Additionally, it explores how cities’ governments, leaders and/or citizens have responded, successfully or not, to populist pressures.

The Guest Editor invites empirical, theoretical or practice-based articles, based in any national or international setting(s), which evaluate the relationship between populism and urban politics. Papers from a wide range of social scientific fields are welcomed, as long as they are relevant to the main theme and accessible to a broad, interdisciplinary audience.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Political and/or societal relevance of urban–rural divisions
• Tension between national and local levels of government
• Quality of democracy and its capacity to mitigate political unrest
• Challenges of governing cities with contemporary societal and economic challenges
• Erosion of trust, social capital, and/or “civic” political cultures
• Importance of immigration, demographic changes and/or racial and ethnic diversity
• Role of structural economic influences, like unemployment and/or economic inequality
• Influence of media and/or new technologies
• Analysis of different ideological manifestations of populism (i.e., political right versus left)

Dr. Alina Oxendine
Guest Editor

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• Populism
• City politics
• Urban-rural
• Trust
• Social capital
• Economic inequality
• Racial diversity
• Democracy