 Introduction: the competitiveness challenge for SecondaryCapital Cities. Chapter 1 in Varieties of Capital Cities, 2018, pp 1-13 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been contested by economic globalization. Secondary Capital Cities – defined as capitals that are not the primary economic city of their nation states – are especially pressured by economic globalization because their political economy is nationally oriented and shaped by the influence of the national government. Thus, Secondary Capital Cities are politically superior but economically inferior. These types of capital cities are nevertheless pushed into a globalized and increasingly knowledge-intense interurban competition. The competitiveness challenge sketched in this book is that Secondary Capital Cities must enter globalized interurban competition without possessing a competitive political economy. The book is guided by three research questions. First, what kinds of locational policies are being formulated in Secondary Capital Cities? Second, which factors explain the formulation of locational policies in Secondary Capital Cities? Third, which actors formulate locational policies in the urban governance arrangements of Secondary Capital Cities? Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:18179_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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