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  • Municipal Councillors in Europe, Volume II

    Citizens and Government

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    As members of representative bodies at local levels of government, municipal councillors play a vital role in democratic decision-making most closely related to the daily lives of citizens. Interactions between councillors and citizens, between councillors themselves, and between councillors and their representative bodies, are therefore some of the most common features of contemporary democracy. ... Read more

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  • Municipal Councillors in Europe, Volume I

    Profile and Roles

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    As members of representative bodies at local levels of government, municipal councillors play a vital role in democratic decision-making most closely related to the daily lives of citizens. Interactions between councillors and citizens, between councillors themselves, and between councillors and their representative bodies, are therefore some of the most common features of contemporary democracy. ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Local Governance Across Europe

    Insights on Local State-Society Relations

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on local state-society relations, understood as institutionalised relations between local municipalities across Europe and individual, collective or corporate societal actors. It presents a typology of local state-society relations, and applies this to characterise the most relevant institutionalised relations between local government and societal actors at the municipal level in ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Local Innovation

    Conditions for the Development of Innovations

    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not. This book solves this problem by answering the following question: what are the conditions for the development of local innovation?In order to identify these conditions, the book explores case study cities which are ... Read more

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  • Local Government in Europe

    New Perspectives and Democratic Challenges

    Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe.Featuring an impressive range of contributors from both eastern and western Europe, the book addresses three main topics: territorial reforms, democratic empowerment of citizens and the role of local leadership, as well as new trends in local finances ... Read more

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  • Close Ties in European Local Governance

    Linking Local State and Society

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book develops and tests a typology of local state-society relations. To deliver such a comparative study on institutionalized relations between local government and societal actors at the municipal level in Europe, the book identifies and classifies country-specific patterns of these institutionalized governance networks. This work explores the diversity within these institutionalized ... Read more

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  • Sustainability, Innovation and Participatory Governance

    A Cross-National Study of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Title first published in 2003. This book focuses on whether participatory governance can lead to sustainable and innovative outcomes. Using an empirical analysis of the development, implementation and review of an EU environmental management system - the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), it examines under which circumstances participatory governance might encourage sustainability and ... Read more

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  • Governing Modern Societies

    Towards Participatory Governance

    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    Is the ‘golden age’ of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state?Within this book, Heinelt seeks to address the democratic deficit in political systems linked to limited Citizen Participation reflecting on the notion of democracy and participatory governance and how they relate to each other. Exploring democracy beyond the governmental ... Read more

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  • Legitimacy and Urban Governance

    A Cross-National Comparative Study

    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement.It explores the nature of the interaction between community involvement and political leadership in modern local governance by drawing on empirical data gathered from case-studies concerning cities in England, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, New ... Read more

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  • Challenges to Political Decision-making

    Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge

    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions.The book examines why, in some contexts, individuals consider something as evident and relevant for their action while others perceive them as nonsense or simply as ‘fake news’. As such, the book ... Read more

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  • European Union Environment Policy and New Forms of Governance: A Study of the Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive and the Eco-management and Audit Scheme Regulation in Three Member States

    A Study of the Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive and the Eco-management and Audit Scheme Regulation in Three Member States

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Outlining the results of a three-country study, this text examines the impact of EU policy on the domestic, political and institutional environment. It tests ideas about new forms of governance that reflect the values of participation and empowerment of local interests, particularly through a close scrutiny of the environmental impact process. The book also ... Read more

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  • Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change

    A Comparison of Urban Strategies

    Since the 1990s ‘beliefs’, ‘ideas’ or ‘knowledge’ as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have received increasing attention in social science for the understanding of political changes. This book makes a significant contribution to this scholarly debate and will be of interest to practitioners, showing on one side how climate change has ... Read more

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