The politics of incremental progressivism : governments, governances and urban policy changes in São Paulo / edited by Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques, University of São Paulo.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eduardo Marques is full professor at the Department of Political Science (DCP) and director of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), both at the University of São Paulo. He holds a PhD in social sciences (Unicamp) and was visiting researcher at Sciences Po Paris, University College London and University of California Berkeley. Eduardo has published extensively on urban policies, politics and inequalities, and is the author of São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities (2016) and Opportunities and deprivation in the Global South: Poverty, segregation and social networks in São Paulo (2012), among others.

"Large metropolises of the Global South are usually portrayed as ungovernable. The Politics of Incremental Progressivism analyzes urban policies in São Paulo - one of the biggest and most complex Southern cities - not only challenging those views, but showing the recent occurrence of progressive change. This book develops the first detailed and systematic account of the policies and politics that construct, maintain and operate a large Southern metropolis. The chapters cover the policies of bus and subway transportation, traffic control, waste collection, development licensing, public housing and large urban projects, additionally to budgeting, electoral results and government formation and dynamics. This important book contributes to the understanding of how the city is governed, what kinds of policies its governments construct and deliver and, more importantly, under what conditions it produces redistributive change in the direction of policies that reduce its striking social and urban inequalities"-- Provided by publisher.

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