@article{3dc9e0134f1b4d698ade2a43b5669a5d,
title = "Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution",
abstract = "Why do some urban governing regimes realize a more equal distribution of public goods than others? Local government interventions in S{\~a}o Paulo, Brazil, have produced surprisingly effective redistribution of residential public goods — housing and sanitation — between 1989 and 2016. I use original interviews and archival research for a comparative-historical analysis of variation across time in S{\~a}o Paulo{\textquoteright}s governance of housing and sanitation. I argue that sequential configurations of a) “embeddedness” of the local state in civil society and b) the “cohesion” of the institutional sphere of the local state, explain why and when urban governing regimes generate the coordinating capacity to distribute public goods on a programmatic basis. I further illustrate how these configurations can explain variation in urban governing regimes across the world.",
keywords = "Bureaucracy, Governance, Housing, Movements, Sanitation, Urban inequality",
author = "Bradlow, {Benjamin H.}",
note = "Funding Information: For their comments on drafts of this manuscript, I thank Anindita Adhikari, Nitsan Chorev, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Peter Evans, Patrick Heller, Ali Kadivar, Fenna Krienen, John Logan and Quinton Mayne. I benefited greatly from comments received at presentations of earlier versions of this work at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the University of S{\~a}o Paulo, the Gauteng City-Region Observatory and the Public Affairs Research Institute at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and meetings of the American Sociological Association, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and the American Political Science Association. I am indebted to those in S{\~a}o Paulo who took time to speak with me, share their experiences, and share documents for this research. All errors are mine. Funding Information: I am grateful for peer-reviewed financial support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant #1802543), the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Brazilian Studies Association, and intramural grants from Brown University{\textquoteright}s Graduate Program in Development at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and the Office of Graduate Education. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/s11186-021-09456-y",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "51",
pages = "117--144",
journal = "Theory and Society",
issn = "0304-2421",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}