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Book SynopsisHolistic in approach, this Handbook’s international range of leading scholars present complementary perspectives, both theoretical and empirically pertinent, to explore recent developments in the field of local and regional governance.
With a fresh outlook on the field, this Handbook builds significantly upon the existing literature to clarify the scope of the discipline, as well as providing tools, information, and research questions to better understand and further explore the field. Chapters provide theoretical and empirical context to current debates on local and regional governance and offer competing analytical lenses for studying the field. Topics explored include the intersecting roles, limits, opportunities, and influence of actors, democracy, place, scale, and networks, with examinations of social cohesion, intermunicipal decentralization, and emerging technologies. Particularly close attention is paid to relationships, as the Handbook introduces to the analysis the ways that actors, tiers of government, institutions and multiple jurisdictions exchange resources, coordinate action and produce decisions with collective impact in local and regional governance.
Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this Handbook will be an invigorating read for students and scholars looking to better understand contemporary policy, politics and subnational governance at local and regional levels.
Trade Review'The Handbook on Local and Regional Governance
brings together a timely and much-needed collection of essays on a myriad set of issues that synthesizes enduring questions and challenges in governing subnational systems. A leading scholar of local governance, Filipe Teles has assembled a compelling volume that is theoretically rigorous and empirically rich in its depth and breadth of contributions from around the world. Scholars and practitioners will benefit from these insightful conversations and reflections on the future of local and regional governance.' -- Thomas J. Vicino, Northeastern University, US
'The Handbook on Local and Regional Governance
is probably the most comprehensive publication on governance issues to date. With a coverage of governance problems from meta-governance to citizen participation in cross-boundary policy networks, from those of digital era governance to ethical challenges of fragmented decision-making systems, the Handbook offers fresh perspectives on and analytical tools for better understanding of the issues involved. The contributions will set new directions for teaching as well as future research on the subject in the years to come.’ -- Harald Baldersheim, University of Oslo, Norway
‘With this book, Teles and colleagues have raised the study of local governance to a new level. This is a comprehensive synthesis of work in the field and will map out future work for a considerable time in the future. This is essential reading for any scholar and student working in this field.’ -- Peter John, King's College London, UK
‘The Handbook on Local and Regional Governance
is a very welcome, comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge within a broad range of relevant areas in this field of research. I would recommend it to the professional researcher as well as to the undergraduate student.’ -- Anders Lidström, Professor Emeritus, Umeå University, Sweden
Table of ContentsContents: 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 Marín Hlynsdóttir PART III DEMOCRACY 11 Local elections and voting: grasping vertical integration and horizontal variation 147 Adam Gendźwiłł, 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 Luís de Sousa and Luís 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 António 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 García 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 José Grin, José Hernández-Bonivento and Fernando Luiz Abrucio PART VI NETWORKS 26 Intermunicipal cooperation: an assessment of drivers and effects 395 Germà Bel and Marianna Sebő 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 Åge Johnsen 30 Emerging technologies and the future of local e-governance 455 Gonçalo 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 Paweł Swianiewicz Index
