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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.
Contents
Contents:
1 A thematic approach to the research agenda for
regional and local government 1
Mark Callanan and John Loughlin
2 Local and regional autonomy - indexes and trends 19
Nicolas Keuffer and Andreas Ladner
3 Territorial restructuring: amalgamations,
secessions and the financial crisis 35
Paweł Swianiewicz
4 Devolution, functional decentralization or
recentralization? Convergence and divergence in
the European territorial governance 49
Romain Pasquier
5 City-regional and metropolitan governance 63
Niamh Moore-Cherry, Andy Pike and John Tomaney
6 Economizing imaginaries of city-regionalism as
politics of city-regionalization 79
Sami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas
7 Regional and local government and the European Union 97
Mark Callanan and Michaël Tatham
8 Managerial reforms from a comparative
perspective: European subnational governments
in the post-New Public Management era 111
Sabine Kuhlmann
9 Citizen involvement in subnational governance:
innovations, trends and questions 133
Frank Hendriks and Ank Michels
10 Populism and representation at the regional and
local levels 149
Silvia Bolgherini and Davide Vampa
11 Leadership at the subnational level: mayoral and
executive models 163
Niels Karsten, David Sweeting, Ulrik Kjær and
Simona Kukovič
Index 177
