Governance has been defined as 'the management of interdependencies'(Mayntz 1997).
This approach insists on the complexity of structurally differentiated social units …

The paper examines the character of multipurpose territorial government and explores the
meaning of frequent calls for more flexibility in the structures and functioning of local and …

After enjoying considerable success among French scholars, the concept of regulation has
now become one of the main political arguments for explaining and justifying policy …

Attention is directed to a number of principles that possibly can guide the on-going debates
on governmental and administrative reform. The most important principles are the integrality …

When social scientists talk about the adoption of new governance arrangements in a given
policy area, their questions are most often functional: What will those new arrangements do …

The article discusses about modern governance. The article presents national and urban
approaches to governance, which are aimed in varying degrees at describing multi-level or …

In Europe today, the state is being challenged, and this is leading to renewed questioning of
the linkages between social regulation and political regulation. Territories, or sub‐national …

For several years now, France has been witnessing the development of territorialised public
innovation and economic development policies (cluster policies in particular), conducted by …

In the shadow of a French national narrative which demonises and rejects local specificities,
highly differentiated territorial political spaces have been created, shaped by identity …

This series explores the formal organisation of sub-national government and democracy on
the one hand, and the necessities and practices of regions and cities on the other hand. In …