Cities Against Democratic Backsliding

Marta Lackowska is Professor at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw. Le Anh Nguyen Long is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Twente.Wirginia Aksztejn is Research Assistant at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw. Ivan Tosics is Managing Director of the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest.

• Foreword: Democracy at the Crossroads - Cities Must Act - Eric Corijn1. Introduction - Ivan Tosics, Wirginia Aksztejn, Marta Lackowska, and Le Anh Nguyen Long2. Cities and Democratic Backsliding - Marta Lackowska, Le Anh Nguyen Long, Ayda Eraydin, and Ivan Tosics3. Conceptual and Methodological Basis of the Book - Wirginia Aksztejn, and Marta Lackowska4. Right-Wings and the City in Contemporary Italy: Culture, Policies, and Remedy - Ignazio Vinci5. Countering the Far-Right Threat to Cities and Communities in the UK - Robin Hambleton6. Cities Against Populism in the US - Enrico Antonio La Viña and Le Anh Nguyen Long7. Fragmented Recentralization Meets Local Resistance: The Case of Poland - Wirginia Aksztejn8. Budapest Against the Attacks of the National Government - Ivan Tosics9. Countering Authoritarian Neoliberal Populism: The Rise of New Social Municipalism in Turkey - Ayda Eraydin10. Looking at Populism and Democratic Backsliding in the Latin American Context: The Case of El Salvador - Arturo Flores López11. Citizen Participation in the Age of Chinese Authoritarian Populism - Su Yun Woo12. Conclusions and Reflections - Le Anh Nguyen Long, Marta Lackowska, Ivan Tosics, and Wirginia Aksztejn

“This is an indispensable and timely study of the growing dangers of democratic backsliding among western democracies, exploring the impact of populist radical right parties on the multi-level governance of cities.” José M. Magone, Berlin School of Economics and Law