The perspective on urban regimes presented here is based on a neo-Gramscian reading of the regulation approach as well as on a classically Gramscian account of the necessary reciprocal relations between state and civil society. In particular I argue that urban regimes can be fruitfully analyzed as strategically selective combinations of political society and civil society, of government and governance, of “hegemony armored by coercion.” I also argue that such regimes may be linked to the formation of a local hegemonic bloc (or power bloc) and a historic bloc (or accumulation regime and its mode of ...