Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change?
探讨城市化如何通过促进集体行动、提升民主需求及培育公民资本三条路径推动政治变革，发现历史与实证主要支持第一条路径，但需更多研究证实城市化对政府质量的改善作用。
Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? Regional Studies. Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public action and enhance the effectiveness of uprisings. Second, cities may increase the demand for democracy relative to dictatorship. Third, cities may engender the development of ‘civic capital’ which enables citizens to improve their own institutions. History and empirics provide significant support for the first channel, but less evidence exists for the others. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion.