City-county consolidation is advanced as a good government reform to promote efficiency,
equity, and accountability and, more recently, to reduce growing disparities between central …

Kurzfassung Unter Fortentwicklung der Theorie der Netzwerke als „intermediärer Strukturen”
zur Bearbeitung regionalwirtschaftlicher Entwicklungsprobleme wird in dem Beitrag der …

This article reviews relevant urban regime theory literature and integrates it with new ideas
about local government roles and citizen participation from the social movements and new …

Leaders in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, have pursued a strategy of
metropolitan consolidation over the last half-century without success. City-county …

These authors examine the capability of local government to influence economic
development by formulating a framework that treats state-business relations as a bargaining …

Redevelopment and food sustainability advocates both support urban agriculture as a
productive use of vacant land in Rustbelt cities, where vacancy is endemic. However, the …

Increasing attention has been paid to forms of urban governance, or how public and private
sector actors cooperate in generating new policies. In fact, almost everywhere where urban …

The topic of local economic development is at once among the most mundane and the most
profound of scholarly concerns. There is an understandable tendency to become bedazzled …

TZ Z wo concepts influencing the actions of rural communities in the 1980s were economic
development and strategic planning. Economic development became an obsession for …

The research results in this paper focus on the significance of (political and economic) actor
networks in a region for the development of that region. The region of Hanover was selected …