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

• Contents:1 Introduction: local and regional governance – a negotiated arena 1Filipe TelesPART I CONTEXT2 Governance and metagovernance failure: exploring their spatial dimensions 13Bob Jessop3 Effective local governance 27Geert Bouckaert4 The right to local self-government 40Warren Magnusson5 Trust and local government: a positive relationship? 50Gerry Stoker, Hannah Bunting and Lawrence McKay6 Decentralisation and autonomy: a picture of big differences 66Andreas Ladner and Nicolas KeufferPART II ACTORS7 Local citizenship 85Hubert Heinelt8 Ties that bind? Mapping and explaining the network activities ofEuropean mayors 96Bas Denters and Kristof Steyvers9 Councillors as local representatives: council, community, centralisationand complexity 115Colin Copus10 Gender and representation in local politics 129Eva Marín HlynsdóttirPART III DEMOCRACY11 Local elections and voting: grasping vertical integration and horizontalvariation 147Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers12 Tracing developments in regional electoral democracy: the impact ofregional authority, regional identity, and regional electoral systems onthe regional vote 164Arjan H. Schakel and Alexander Verdoes13 Limits and challenges of citizen participation 184Giovanni Allegretti and Massimo Allulli14 Online participation 203Norbert Kersting15 Revisiting the local integrity system concept and theory 219Luís de Sousa and Luís Filipe Mota AlmeidaPART IV PLACE16 Political leadership: when place makes a difference 236Robin Hambleton17 Policy making at the local level 255Catherine Durose, Beth Perry and Liz Richardson18 Poverty and social cohesion in metropolitan areas 269Jonathan Pratschke and Enrica Morlicchio19 A new debate on local governance from the lenses of Earth System science 284Sara Moreno Pires and Filipe Teles20 Land-use management: local institutions and the power to shape 299António F. TavaresPART V SCALE21 Comparing local government systems and reforms in Europe: fromNew Public Management to digital era governance? 315Sabine Kuhlmann and Justine Marienfeldt22 Governance in contemporary metropolises: quo vadis the state? 332Marisol García and Frank Moulaert23 Metropolitan governance and policy challenges 349Karsten Zimmermann24 Regional governance and institutional collective action 364Richard Clark Feiock25 Intra-municipal decentralization: going below traditional tiers of government 377Eduardo José Grin, José Hernández-Bonivento and Fernando Luiz AbrucioPART VI NETWORKS26 Intermunicipal cooperation: an assessment of drivers and effects 395Germà Bel and Marianna Sebő27 Multi-level governance and democracy: a local governance perspective 409Tiziana Caponio28 Corporatization at the local level 423Rhys Andrews29 Performance management and accountability: the role ofintergovernmental information systems 439Jostein Askim and Åge Johnsen30 Emerging technologies and the future of local e-governance 455Gonçalo Paiva DiasPART VII THE DISCIPLINE(S)31 Utopian experimentalism to learn about social transformation at a localand regional level 468Daniel Silver32 Teaching local and regional governance 482Alistair Jones33 Geographies of knowledge: centres and peripheries of local governmentstudies in Europe 492Paweł SwianiewiczIndex

'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.'