Jefferey M. Sellers

Jefferey M. Sellers
Department of Political Science and International Relations

Current and Recent Projects

My current work addresses issues in comparative politics, urban politics, local democracy and the study of urban regions. The common focal point is an urban (and local) perspective on democracy in the United States and around the world. This work focuses increasingly on developing and transitional countries as well as the OECD.

Comparative and Urban Politics as a Research Agenda

"From Within to Between Nations: Subnational Comparison Across Borders", Perspectives on Politics 17(1): 85-105 (2019).

"State-Society Relations Beyond the Weberian State," in M.Bevir (ed.), Sage Handbook of Governance.

"Sociolegal Studies and Urban Governance: Mapping an Interdisciplinary Frontier," Canadian Journal of Law and Society 2(2): 245-248 (2007).

"Replacing the Nation: An Agenda for Comparative Urban Politics" Urban Affairs Review 40(4): 419-445 (2005).

Local Governance and Civil Society in Global Perspective (Local Linkages webpage)

Multilevel Democracy: How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State (Cambridge University Press, January 2020) (lead author, with Anders Lidström and Yooil Bae).

"Urban Governance and Institutions in the Developed and Developing Worlds: Toward a Comparative Historical Perspective" Croatian and Comparative Public Administration 16(3), 459-478 (2016)

"Trois modèles de gouvernance multiniveau au-delà du clivage état-société", Téléscope, 19(1): 62 - 84 (2013) (Link to English translation).

(with Sun-Young Kwak) "State and Society in Local Governance: Lessons From a Multilevel Comparison " (International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research ).

(with Yooil Bae) "Globalization, the Developmental State and the Politics of Urban Growth in Korea: A Multi-level Analysis"
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31 (3), pp. 543-560.

"Sociolegal Studies and Urban Governance: Mapping an Interdisciplinary Frontier," Canadian Journal of Law and Society
22(2): 245-248 (2007).

(with Anders Lidström) "Decentralization, Local Govenment and the Welfare State" Governance Vol. 20 (4), pp. 609-632.
(based on indicators for 21 OECD countries) .

"Comparing Local Government in Developed Democracies: Selected Indicators " (working paper including documentation and
citations for "Local Government and the Welfare State").

"Unions and the Strategic Context of Local Governance," in L. Turner and D. Cornfield (eds.), Labor in the New Urban
Battlegrounds, pp. 35-52. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization (Barcelona: United Cities and Local Governments 2007).

"Urbanization and the Social Origins of National Policies Toward Sprawl," in H. Richardson and C. Bae (eds.), Urban Sprawl
in Western Europe and the United States (Ashgate Press, 2003) (PDF file).

"Transnational Urban Associations and the State in Contemporary Europe: A Rebirth of the Hansa League?", European Yearbook of
Administrative History (2003) (PDF file).

Urban Development and Its Social and Environmental Consequences Worldwide (Urban environmental governance webpage)

Sellers, J., & Wang, H. (2018). The Emerging Face of Suburban India: The Geography of Housing Markets (Working Paper). Los Angeles, California: Lusk Center for Real Estate Research, University of Southern California.
"Understanding the dynamics of urban form: A comparison of Chinese and Indian cases", Landscape and Urban Planning (revise and resubmit) (co-authored with Huang, J., Ramachandra, T. V., Kumar, U.).

”Modelling Urban Dynamics along Two Major Industrial Corridors in India”, Spatial Information Research (2018) (with Ramachandra, T.V., Bharath, H.A. and Vinay, S.).

"An Exploration of Multi-Scale Network Structure of the Yangtze River Middle Reaches Urban Agglomerations Based on an Interlocking Model" Urban and Rural Planning 5: 65-75 (2017) (with Huang, J., Chen, S. and Xing, X.).

"Measuring the Difference Between Coastal and Inland Urban Agglomerations: A Comparison between Wuhan Metropolitan Area and Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Based on Urban Flows”, Modern Urban Research 7: 114-123 (2017) (with Huang, J., Wang, C., and Zhang, L.).
"A Global Comparative Analysis of Urban Form: Applying Remote Sensing and GIS" Landscape and Urban Planning 82 (4):
184-197 (2007)(with Jingan Huang and Xi Xi Lu).

International Metropolitan Observatory Project (IMO project website)

Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis: Regimes of Place Equality and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries . (London: Palgrave-
MacMillan,2017). (lead editor, with Marta Arretche, Daniel Kübler, and Eran Razin).

"Place, Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Framework for Comparative Analysis" (Introductory chapter).

"Contested Metropolis: Inequality and the Politics of Metropolitan Governance in the United States".(lead author, with Petroy, Erika and Hondagneu-Messner, Sasha)
"Conclusion" (lead author, with Arretche, Marta, Kübler, Daniel and Razin, Eran)

The Political Ecology of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries. (Essex and New
York: ECPR Press and Columbia University Press, 2013) (lead editor, with Kübler, Daniel; Walter-Rogg, Melanie; and Walks,
W. Alan).

"Introduction: The Metropolitanization of Politics," in Jefferey Sellers, Daniel Kübler, Melanie Walter-Rogg and Alan
Walks (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (lead author, with Alan Walks).

"Place, Institutions and the Political Ecology of U.S. Metropolitan Areas," in Jefferey Sellers, Daniel Kübler, Melanie
Walter-Rogg and Alan Walks (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis

"The Emerging Metropolitan Political Ecology of France," in Jefferey Sellers, Daniel Kübler, Melanie Walter-Rogg and
Alan Walks (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (lead author, with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot)

"Conclusion: Metropolitan Political Behavior in Comparative Pespective," in Jefferey Sellers, Daniel Kübler, Melanie
Walter-Rogg and Alan Walks (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (lead author, with Daniel Kübler, Alan
Walks, Melanie Walter- Rogg and Philippe Rochat).

(with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot) (eds.), Metropolitanization and Political Change (Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften,
2005; French Edition CNRS Press, 2007).

Excerpts: "Metropolitanization in the United States: From Single Model to Multiple Patterns" (sole-authored chapter)
"Conclusion: The Metropolitanization of Politics" (co-authored with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot)