Summary

THE POLITICS OF INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVISM

‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.
This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and contentiously, and despite failures and inequalities. This great one-city-many-policies comparison departs from high quality empirically grounded research to show that collective action and public policies are back in town. In São Paulo, they have made a difference.’
Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po CNRS research Professor, Dean Sciences Po Urban School, France

‘For anyone interested in urban governance, The Politics of Incremental Progressivism is a must-read. Nowhere in the world have cities faced greater challenges yet been more innovative in tackling the problems of urban poverty and exclusion than in Brazil. One could not ask for a more incisive, detailed and groundbreaking set of studies on urban transformation and the politics of change.’
Patrick Heller, Lyn Cross Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University, USA

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.

Author Biography

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.

Acknowledgements

Authors

Introduction. Eduardo Marques

Part 1. Urban politics and political institutions

1. Governments, mayors and policies - Eduardo Marques and Telma Hoyler

2. The politics of Executive-legislative relations - Eduardo Marques and Telma Hoyler

3. The politics of municipal budgets – Ursula Peres

Part 2. Governing urban services:

4. Struggling to replace the car paradigm: politics and mobility change - Carolina Requena

5. Increasingly governing bus services through policy instruments – Marcos Campos

6. Technocratic decisions and financial arrangements in subway services – Daniela Costanzo

7. The incremental politics of regulating waste collection – Samuel Ralize de Godoy

Part 3. Governing land and housing:

8. Continuities and changes in the diversification of public housing - Eduardo Marques and Magaly Pulhez

9. Developers and politicians in the institutionalising of development regulation – Telma Hoyler

10. Conflicts and incremental change in urban renewal instruments - Betina Sarue and Stefano Pagin

11. Circulation of institutional formats in urban regeneration: from São Paulo to Porto Maravilha– Betina Sarue

Conclusion. Comparing and understanding policy changes in São Paulo - Eduardo Marques

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