Research Agenda for Regional and Local Government

Edited by Mark Callanan, Senior Lecturer, Whitaker School of Government and Management, Institute of Public Administration, Ireland and John Loughlin, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Politics, Cardiff University, UK

• Contents:1 A thematic approach to the research agenda forregional and local government 1Mark Callanan and John Loughlin2 Local and regional autonomy – indexes and trends 19Nicolas Keuffer and Andreas Ladner3 Territorial restructuring: amalgamations,secessions and the financial crisis 35Paweł Swianiewicz4 Devolution, functional decentralization orrecentralization? Convergence and divergence inthe European territorial governance 49Romain Pasquier5 City-regional and metropolitan governance 63Niamh Moore-Cherry, Andy Pike and John Tomaney6 Economizing imaginaries of city-regionalism aspolitics of city-regionalization 79Sami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas7 Regional and local government and the European Union 97Mark Callanan and Michaël Tatham8 Managerial reforms from a comparativeperspective: European subnational governmentsin the post-New Public Management era 111Sabine Kuhlmann9 Citizen involvement in subnational governance:innovations, trends and questions 133Frank Hendriks and Ank Michels10 Populism and representation at the regional andlocal levels 149Silvia Bolgherini and Davide Vampa11 Leadership at the subnational level: mayoral andexecutive models 163Niels Karsten, David Sweeting, Ulrik Kjær andSimona KukovičIndex 177

‘The volume offers rich research ideas relating to the study of regional and local governance dynamics from a comparative perspective.’