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Role Perception and Behaviour of Municipal Councillors
This book reflects on the role and task perception as well as the behaviour of councillors in the changing context of local democracy. Political leade...
Towards Participatory Governance
This book explores democracy beyond the governmental structures and focuses on participatory governance in particular. It demonstrates that we need to...
Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy
With this book we aim at describing and analysing the selection, daily life, networks and values of local top political leaders in seventeen European ...
Insights on Local State-Society Relations
This book focuses on local state-society relations, understood as institutionalised relations between local municipalities across Europe and individua...
Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge
This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in ...
Different Paths in Contrasting Contexts: Germany and Israel
As urban areas have grown and sprawl has spread in recent decades, metropolitan governments around the world have begun to look beyond city borders, e...
Capacity, Democracy and the Dynamics of Place
This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions. The case studies on Germany, Spai...
Instruments and Strategies of European Governance
This book gives an overview over the central governance policies of the EU. Each chapter focuses on the development of an individual policy, therefore...
A Study of the Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive and the Eco-management and Audit Scheme Regulation in Three Member States
This title was first published in 2001. Outlining the results of a three-country study, this text examines the impact of EU policy on the domestic, po...
A Cross-National Study of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
Title first published in 2003. This book focuses on whether participatory governance can lead to sustainable and innovative outcomes. Using an empiric...