Territory and scale have been some of the most relevant topics in recent political science,
but do we know enough about cooperation between local governments? How we think …

Uncontrolled urban growth, subsequent suburbanization, sprawling, and haphazard land
development are the crucial urban development problems of Addis Ababa and the …

Media coverage of politics is widely considered essential to political participation. However,
studies on local elections do not yet generally take the effect of the media environment into …

The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing
economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities …

Based on a review of experiences in Lyons, Stuttgart and London, this article reflects upon
the implications of metropolitanisation for democracy. It examines the institutional set-up of …

A growing majority of the world's citizens lives in metropolitan areas. The question of how
these areas can be governed has been the subject of a long-running scientific and political …

SINCE the mid-1990s, the use of new information and communication technologies
(principally via the Internet and e-commerce) has become increasingly widespread in …

Based on a survey of citizens of Greater Stuttgart, I examine the existence of a metropolitan
citizenship and analyze the awareness of, satisfaction with, and attachment to a city-region …

Legitimacy is a central factor in democratic administrative systems, as it determines the
success-or failure-of governance structures. In this article, we search for the sources of …

Przedstawiono międzynarodowe doświadczenia w zarządzaniu obszarami metropolitalnymi-
przywołano przykłady Węgier, Niemiec, Francji, Holandii, Włoch. W tym kontekście …