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Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public officials, but local citizens do not always associate them with the central government. Street-Level Governing is the first book to investigate how muhtars carry out their role—not only what they are supposed to do, but how they actually operate—to provide an ethnographic study of the state as viewed from its margins. It starts from the premise that the seeming "margin" of state administration is not peripheral at all, but instructive as to how it functions. As Elise Massicard shows, muhtars exist at the intersection of everyday life and the exercise of power. Their position offers a personalized point of contact between citizens and state institutions, enabling close oversight of the citizenry, yet simultaneously projecting the sense of an accessible state to individuals. Challenging common theories of the state, Massicard outlines how the position of the muhtar throws into question an assumed dichotomy between domination and social resistance, and suggests that considerations of circumvention and accommodation are normal attributes of state-society functioning.

Turkey --- Turkey. --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Istanbul. --- Neighborhood. --- anthropology of state. --- everyday politics. --- informal politics. --- local politics. --- street-level. --- urban politics.

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Que font exactement les femmes et les hommes politiques ? Comment s’organisent leurs activités quotidiennes ? En quoi consiste le travail des dirigeants politiques ? Que savons-nous de l’emploi du temps réel de nos représentants ? Cet ouvrage propose de répondre à ces questions relatives à la vie des démocraties représentatives à partir d’une enquête de sociologie politique inédite menée entre 2010 et 2013. Cette recherche invite à une plongée scientifique au cœur du quotidien de la politique, un univers paradoxalement méconnu. L’exploration porte ici sur l’agenda personnel d’une élue française d’aujourd’hui, une vice-présidente de conseil régional. Le livre décrit ainsi de l’intérieur l’activité politique pour en saisir les mutations contemporaines : la rationalisation et la collectivisation du travail politique, l’importance de l’agenda comme instrument d’organisation et outil de communication, l’emprise croissante des technologies de l’information dans le travail politique, la saturation du temps de travail des élus, mais aussi la construction d’une plus grande disponibilité sur le territoire et d’une certaine transparence. L’enquête révèle enfin comment, en démocratie, les contraintes temporelles des trajectoires politiques personnelles affectent l’action publique, quand l’agenda finit parfois par être utilisé davantage pour préparer les conquêtes électorales futures que pour mettre en œuvre la politique dont l’élu a la charge. Illustration de couverture : © Hélène Robert This book explores politics in a new way. By analysing the organizer and the activity of a contemporary female politician thanks to a study that is both a statistical and ethnographic one, it describes daily politics, a profession which appears to be time-consuming, technical, complex and made of multiple interactions. Following the researches on the sociology of political elites, and on political work that where developed in political science, it brings a new look on a universe of which…

Political Science Public Admin. & Development --- Sociology --- politique --- travail politique --- politique locale --- conseil régional --- emploi du temps --- politics --- political work --- local politics --- regional council --- timetable --- Politics, Practical --- Politicians --- Women politicians --- Local government --- Time --- Incumbency (Public officers)

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This is the first major study of politics and public administration in Japan to balance the prevailing view of the regional policy process from above" with a view "from below." Developing a comparative framework for understanding the place of localities in policy making, he demonstrates that relations among localities in Japan are much more important than previously supposed.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- J4670 --- J4600.90 --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Japan: Politics and law -- local politics and government -- general and history --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary

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Lawrence D. Brown presents five case studies of cities that have promoted active living with varying success through a range of approaches. He shows how and why the transformation of a call for public intervention into projects, programs, and policies is inescapably political.

Public health --- Health planning. --- Political aspects --- Social aspects. --- Albuquerque. --- Louisville. --- New York City. --- Sacramento. --- Wilkes-Barre. --- bicycles. --- bike lanes. --- bike paths. --- biking. --- city bikes. --- city planning. --- cycling. --- exercise. --- jogging. --- local politics. --- parks. --- public health. --- running. --- urban studies. --- urban transit.

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This volume examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.

Economic geography. --- Sociology of environment. --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- Africa, East. --- Africa, British East --- British East Africa --- East Africa --- African landscape. --- Ancestral Precedence. --- Communal Practices. --- Development. --- East Africa. --- Eastern Africa. --- Economic Landscape. --- Implementation. --- Land Investment. --- Land, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands. --- Large-Scale Investments. --- Livelihoods. --- Local Politics. --- National Wealth. --- Pastoral Drylands. --- Piecemeal Advancement. --- Political Landscape. --- Politics. --- Regional Trade. --- Social Inequality. --- Social Relations. --- community development. --- cultural change. --- economic development. --- economic landscape. --- infrastructure projects. --- land use. --- large-scale investments. --- livelihoods. --- local politics. --- pastoral drylands. --- political landscape. --- regional trade. --- resource utilization. --- social change. --- social inequality. --- territorialisation. --- Economic development --- Investments, Foreign --- Land use, Rural --- Arid regions