Handbook on local and regional governance / edited by Filipe Teles (Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences, University of Aveiro, Portugal).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teles, Filipe, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in public administration and management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"Holistic 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction: Local and regional governance - a negotiated arena / Filipe Teles

Part I. Context

2. Governance and metagovernance failure: Exploring their spatial dimensions / Bob Jessop

3. Effective local governance / Geert Bouckaert

4. The right to local self-government / Warren Magnusson

5. Trust and local government: A positive relationship? / Gerry Stoker, Hannah Bunting and Lawrence McKay

6. Decentralisation and autonomy: A picture of big differences / Andreas Ladner and Nicolas Keuffer

Part II. Actors

7. Local citizenship / Hubert Heinelt

8. Ties that bind? Mapping and explaining the network activities of European mayors / Bas Denters and Kristof Steyvers

9. Councillors as local representatives: Council, community, centralisation and complexity / Colin Copus

10. Gender and representation in local politics / Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir

Part III. Democracy

11. Local elections and voting: Grasping vertical integration and horizontal variation / 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 / Arjan H. Schakel and Alexander Verdoes

13. Limits and challenges of citizen participation / Giovanni Allegretti and Massimo Allulli

14. Online participation / Norbert Kersting

15. Revisiting the local integrity system concept and theory / Luís de Sousa and Luís Filipe Mota Almeida

Part IV. Place

16. Political leadership: When place makes a difference / Robin Hambleton

17. Policy making at the local level / Catherine Durose, Beth Perry and Liz Richardson

18. Poverty and social cohesion in metropolitan areas / Jonathan Pratschke and Enrica Morlicchio

19. A new debate on local governance from the lenses of earth system science / Sara Moreno Pires and Filipe Teles

20. Land-use management: Local institutions and the power to shape / António F. Tavares

Part V. Scale

21. Comparing local government systems and reforms in Europe: From new public management to digital era governance? / Sabine Kuhlmann and Justine Marienfeldt

22. Governance in contemporary metropolises: Quo vadis the state? / Marisol García and Frank Moulaert

23. Metropolitan governance and policy challenges / Karsten Zimmermann

24. Regional governance and institutional collective action / Richard Clark Feiock

25. Intra-municipal decentralization: Going below traditional tiers of government / Eduardo José Grin, José Hernández-Bonivento and Fernando Luiz Abrucio

Part VI. Networks

26. Intermunicipal cooperation: An assessment of drivers and effects / Germà Bel and Marianna Sebő

27. Multi-level governance and democracy: A local governance perspective / Tiziana Caponio

28. Corporatization at the local level / Rhys Andrews

29. Performance management and accountability: The role of intergovernmental information systems / Jostein Askim and Åge Johnsen

30. Emerging technologies and the future of local e-governance / Gonçalo Paiva Dias

Part VII. The discipline(s)

31. Utopian experimentalism to learn about social transformation at a local and regional level / Daniel Silver

32. Teaching local and regional governance / Alistair Jones

33. Geographies of knowledge: Centres and peripheries of local government studies in Europe / Paweł Swianiewicz

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800371200 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.