Urban politics research has not kept pace—empirically or theoretically—with city
governments' engagement with climate change policy. Thousands of cities globally have …

Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today.
Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad …

Apart from local monographs and normative texts on community participation, research on
community leadership constitutes a blind spot in urban leadership, urban politics, social …

Cet article défend l'idée selon laquelle il n'est plus satisfaisant d'étudier les formes du
gouvernement des villes françaises au travers du seul cadre d'analyse des rapports centre …

There is an oft‐stated claim in political science research that public sector reforms in
Western democracies are consistent with a shift from government to governance. This article …

This article analyses the normative dimension of metropolitan governance in the case of
Montreal. According to the main schools of thought (the reform school, the public choice …

This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities,
how they are governed, what is meant by 'governance', why the question of city-regional …

In this paper I examine the characteristics of metropolitan governance in Spain. In the first
part, I briefly analyse the different theoretical conceptions and the existing models of …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, several tendencies accentuate the entwining of
cities with dynamics that occur at other territorial levels. City governance cannot be …

The development and change of metropolitan institutions have been at the heart of political
and theoretical debates for decades. However, given the widespread path dependency of …