Embeddedness and Cohesion: Regimes of Urban Public Goods Distribution

• DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/h39jw
• Publication Date: 2018-08-24T20:45:28Z
• Authors: Benjamin H. Bradlow
• Keywords: Embeddedness; Redistribution; Cohesion (chemistry)

Why are some cities more effective than others in distributing public goods? Local government interventions São Paulo, Brazil, have produced surprisingly redistribution of residential goods — housing and sanitation between 1989 2016. I use original interviews archival research for a comparative-historical analysis variation across time Paulo’s governance sanitation. argue that sequential configurations a) “embeddedness” the local state civil society b) “cohesion” institutional sphere state, explain why when generate coordinating capacity to distribute goods. further illustrate how these can urban governing regimes world.