This is a global overview of power in major capital cities, analyzed from different angles by a set of urban scholars of world renown.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences.
Göran Therborn is Professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has worked on all the populated continents of the world, and has dealt with a number of themes and topics in numerous publications, including cities as places of power, processes of inequality, sex, gender, and family relations, waves and processes of globalization, world pathways to modernity, unemployment and social policies in comparative perspective, the history of democracy and the right to vote.
