CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Oanca, Alexandra Cristina |
|---|---|
| Title | Governing the European Capital of Culture and Urban Regimes in Sibiu |
| Summary | Narratives of success regarding entrepreneurial strategies of urban governance tend to veil the power structures at the urban level and to obscure the origins and consequences of these stories. This paper has as a starting point the success stories built around the European Capital of Capital 2007 programme in Sibiu and traces the consequences of the ECC on the structures of urban governance. By bringing together urban regime theory and a multiscalar perspective on urban governance, this paper focuses on how the bidding, preparation and implementation of the ECC programme was possible due to the overlapping and fusing of interests and agendas of actors and institutions from different scales and how this overlapping made possible not just the ECC programme but also urban governance in general. Furthermore, the narratives of success which emerged due to this overlapping were and are used to legitimate the material and electoral benefits obtained by the actors and institutions involved and also the correctness and effectiveness of past measures undertaken by the urban regime and also of future ones. |
| Supervisor | Kowalski, Alexandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/oanca_alexandra.pdf |
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