A research agenda for regional and local government / edited by Mark Callanan and John Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Callanan, Mark, editor.

Loughlin, John, 1948- editor.

Series:

Elgar research agendas.

Elgar research agendas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Research.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This insightful Research Agenda takes a thematic approach to analysing reform in regional and local government, exploring central concepts such as devolution, Europeanisation and globalisation. Expert contributors address key trends in structural change and reorganisation, subnational autonomy and decentralisation, metropolitan governance, and multi-level governance. Chapters explore managerial innovations and reform, democratic participation and leadership, and populism at local and regional levels. Identifying promising research avenues in these fields, the Research Agenda reflects on the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis, and potential lessons that are arising for subnational governments following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. It concludes that although the 2008 crisis has had some impact on territorial governance, there is greater continuity than radical change. Addressing particular themes and trends from a comparative perspective, this Research Agenda will be critical reading for scholars and students of international politics, urban studies and regional studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. A thematic approach to the research agenda for regional and local government / Mark Callanan and John Loughlin

2. Local and regional autonomy - Indexes and trends / Nicolas Keuffer and Andreas Ladner

3. Territorial restructuring: Amalgamations, secessions and the financial crisis / Paweł Swianiewicz

4. Devolution, functional decentralization or recentralization? Convergence and divergence in the European territorial governance / Romain Pasquier

5. City-regional and metropolitan governance / Niamh Moore-Cherry, Andy Pike and John Tomaney

6. Economizing imaginaries of city-regionalism as politics of city-regionalization / Sami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas

7. Regional and local government and the European Union / Mark Callanan and Micha.l Tatham

8. Managerial reforms from a comparative perspective: European subnational governments in the post-new public management era / Sabine Kuhlmann

9. Citizen involvement in subnational governance: Innovations, trends and questions / Frank Hendriks and Ank Michels

10. Populism and representation at the regional and local levels / Silvia Bolgherini and Davide Vampa

11. Leadership at the subnational level: Mayoral and executive models / Niels Karsten, David Sweeting, Ulrik Kj.r and Simona Kukovič

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83910-664-6

OCLC:

1255219139