1st Edition

Globally Competent Governance Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities

By Michael Guo-Brennan Copyright 2025
272 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Globally Competent Governance explores promising policies and practices developed by local governments and other community leaders across the United States and beyond in their efforts to build welcoming and inclusive communities and globally competent governments. Cities of the future, be they large, regional metropolitan centers of commerce and political power, regional hubs that service... Read more

Introduction

1.Globalization, Inclusion, and Leadership         

Part I: Immigration as Development

2. Immigration, Immigration, and More Immigration      

3. Liberalizing Immigration for a More Welcoming Community 

4. Globally Competent Leadership and Governance       

Part II: Becoming a Welcoming Community

5. Becoming Welcoming

6. What is a Welcoming and Inclusive Community?       

Part III: Views from Inside Welcoming Communities

7. Cities, Immigration, and Changing Identity

8. Local Government Inclusivity and Global Competency

9. Welcoming Communities and Community Services    

Part IV : Making a Globally Competent City

10. Making a Globally Competent City  

11. Making Cities Welcoming

Biography

Michael Guo-Brennan is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Director of the MPA Program in the Department of Political Science at Troy University, Alabama, USA.