Associated with innovation in both democratic practice and service design, neighbourhoods
are high on policy agendas across Europe. Drawing upon classic debates about size and …

Depending on their national level of income, development and modernization, all countries
in the world can be generally categorized as either advanced or developing. Studies on why …

This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we
govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes …

Using conceptual dimensions identified by the literature on political leadership, this article
compares its transformations at the local level in Europe. Often associated with the alleged …

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Großer Dank gilt schließlich meinen Eltern, Gudrun Werner-Schneider und Volkmar
Schneider, die mich immer unterstützt haben, auch wenn sie vermutlich nicht immer …

J ones S. Climate change policies of city governments in federal systems: an analysis of
Vancouver, Melbourne and New York City, Regional Studies. Canada, Australia and the …

This article connects two streams in the literature on local political leadership by identifying
the effect of leadership in form on the altering nature of leadership behaviour in the era of …

I don't want to see anybody do anymore goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on
press conferences… Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here. It's too …

The purpose of this chapter is to develop a research agenda that reflects issues and
concerns in the field of comparative local government studies as it enters the 21st century …