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Dynamics of Local Decision Making: Shifting Power from Nation States to Cities

Explore the current global landscape with rising terrorism, populism, and shifting power dynamics from nation states to cities. Discover the role of local initiatives and mayors in solving big problems.

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Dynamics of Local Decision Making: Shifting Power from Nation States to Cities

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  1. Dynamics of Local Decision Making Pieter Jan Esselbrugge Inholland, Rotterdam Intensive Program LocalDecisionMaking – MasarykUniversity, Brno

  2. LocalDecisionMaking • Where do we stand? • Startingpoints? • Where are we going to?

  3. Benjamin R. Barber • Political scientist from U.S.A. • Advisor of President Clinton • International bestseller: “Jihad vs McWorld” (1995)

  4. Currentsituation • Rising terrorism • Internationalisation of big firms and banks • +!: intrusive nationalism and populism in our ‘old world’ • Conclusion: the national state isn’t able to solve big problems

  5. The nation state losessignificance • “we return to the level where people organise their lives and their conditions to survive” • => cities! • “why cities can and should govern globally and how they already do” (subtitle of Barber’s new book ‘If mayors ruled the world’)

  6. Nation state vscities • Nation state: governing with bureaucratic instruments • Cities: governing with practical initiatives to solve problems concerning safety, environment, employability and health

  7. Boris Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Av0-HGN0js

  8. Michael Bloomberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Be8ki7YOW0

  9. Situation in The Netherlands • Power of national government is leaking away • Execution of policy is being done by the market, privatised public companies and lower government • Performance-orientated • => massive and perverse bureaucracy ‘chased’ by media

  10. Tendency • Vision fleds away • Legitimacy crumbles • Trust in national state shrinks • New assemblies will grow in cities

  11. Occupy

  12. Arabic spring

  13. Localisation • In NL: a hausse of local initiatives • ‘Do it ourselves’ • => dependency of bureaucratic and huge service companies is replaced by ownership of citizens

  14. Howabout the welfare state? • National government economizes • Decentralisation is used as a method • New institutional arrangements for a local oriented welfare state will appear

  15. Back to Barber • Politics will return to it’s original arena: the ‘polis’ • What can national government do? • A chosen mayor!

  16. Parliament of Mayors • In such a Parliament the real problems of the world will be solved!

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