Handbook on Local and Regional Governance

Contents:

1 Introduction: local and regional governance - a negotiated arena 1
Filipe Teles

PART I CONTEXT
2 Governance and metagovernance failure: exploring their spatial dimensions 13
Bob Jessop
3 Effective local governance 27
Geert Bouckaert
4 The right to local self-government 40
Warren Magnusson
5 Trust and local government: a positive relationship? 50
Gerry Stoker, Hannah Bunting and Lawrence McKay
6 Decentralisation and autonomy: a picture of big differences 66
Andreas Ladner and Nicolas Keuffer

PART II ACTORS
7 Local citizenship 85
Hubert Heinelt
8 Ties that bind? Mapping and explaining the network activities of
European mayors 96
Bas Denters and Kristof Steyvers
9 Councillors as local representatives: council, community, centralisation
and complexity 115
Colin Copus
10 Gender and representation in local politics 129
Eva Marin Hlynsdottir

PART III DEMOCRACY
11 Local elections and voting: grasping vertical integration and horizontal
variation 147
Adam Gendzwill, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers
12 Tracing developments in regional electoral democracy: the impact of
regional authority, regional identity, and regional electoral systems on
the regional vote 164
Arjan H. Schakel and Alexander Verdoes
13 Limits and challenges of citizen participation 184
Giovanni Allegretti and Massimo Allulli
14 Online participation 203
Norbert Kersting
15 Revisiting the local integrity system concept and theory 219
Luis de Sousa and Luis Filipe Mota Almeida

PART IV PLACE
16 Political leadership: when place makes a difference 236
Robin Hambleton
17 Policy making at the local level 255
Catherine Durose, Beth Perry and Liz Richardson
18 Poverty and social cohesion in metropolitan areas 269
Jonathan Pratschke and Enrica Morlicchio
19 A new debate on local governance from the lenses of Earth System science 284
Sara Moreno Pires and Filipe Teles
20 Land-use management: local institutions and the power to shape 299
Antonio F. Tavares

PART V SCALE
21 Comparing local government systems and reforms in Europe: from
New Public Management to digital era governance? 315
Sabine Kuhlmann and Justine Marienfeldt
22 Governance in contemporary metropolises: quo vadis the state? 332
Marisol Garcia and Frank Moulaert
23 Metropolitan governance and policy challenges 349
Karsten Zimmermann
24 Regional governance and institutional collective action 364
Richard Clark Feiock
25 Intra-municipal decentralization: going below traditional tiers of government 377
Eduardo Jose Grin, Jose Hernandez-Bonivento and Fernando Luiz Abrucio

PART VI NETWORKS
26 Intermunicipal cooperation: an assessment of drivers and effects 395
Germa Bel and Marianna Sebo
27 Multi-level governance and democracy: a local governance perspective 409
Tiziana Caponio
28 Corporatization at the local level 423
Rhys Andrews
29 Performance management and accountability: the role of
intergovernmental information systems 439
Jostein Askim and Age Johnsen
30 Emerging technologies and the future of local e-governance 455
Goncalo Paiva Dias

PART VII THE DISCIPLINE(S)
31 Utopian experimentalism to learn about social transformation at a local
and regional level 468
Daniel Silver
32 Teaching local and regional governance 482
Alistair Jones
33 Geographies of knowledge: centres and peripheries of local government
studies in Europe 492
Pawel Swianiewicz

Index

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• Administração pública
• Regionais políticas governamentais
• Governo regional
• Planeamento regional e de áreas

Subnational governance; Local governance; Regional governance; Scale; Place; Networked governance