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Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood Tensions and Cooperation
The debate on governance originates in the OECD world. At the latest since the postcolonial debate, we know that we need to “test” our assumptions...
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Citizens’ support for economic governance approaches in contemporary China
This study examines potential variations in everyday Chinese citizens’ support for two prevailing economic governance forms in contemporary China:...
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Metropolitan Governance and Interorganizational Coordination: Study of a City Corporation in Bangladesh
Metropolitan governance focuses on democratic participation, citizen-centered services and local growth. In Bangladesh, urban sprawl, rapid...
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Multilevel governance of energy transitions in Europe: Addressing wicked problems of coordination, justice, and power in energy policy
Concerns about energy transition and policies to achieve a clean energy Europe are omnipresent in all European discourses. A transformation dynamic...
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Differences and Similarities in Local Participative Governance in Slovakia and Lithuania
This chapter examines the differences and similarities between the local governance of two young democracies in Slovakia and Lithuania. Using...
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Polycentric disaster governance in a federalising Nepal: interplay between people, bureaucracy and political leadership
In evolving democracies, top-down approaches to response and recovery in disaster governance remain predominant. Taking the case of Nepal, this...
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Managing Nordic Local Governments Paradoxes and Challenges of the Municipal Chief Executive Officer
This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long...
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Organized Business and Trade Unions in Local Governance
The assumption that organized business interests have a privileged role in local politics is an ongoing issue in the research on local politics and...
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Just translation? A socioecological justice lens on EU environmental governance and urban mobility transitions
EU environmental policies such as the Ambient Air Quality Directive 2008/50 are highly relevant in this age of the looming climate crisis and...
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Emotional governance at the street level: a content analysis of service slogans in China
This paper explores emotional governance in Chinese street-level bureaucracy by conducting a content analysis of service slogans. Emotional...
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Rebel governance: a vibrant field of research
This literature review provides an outline of a comparatively young academic discipline, referred to as Rebel Governance. Individual avenues of...
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The Governance Structure of Local Government Finances in Spain
Local governance has important economic dimensions and is related to the ability to raise revenue or receive transfers from central or regional...
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Praxis makes perfect: rebel governance, repression, and democratization
Rebel governance remains a curious phenomenon. Some have argued that certain manifestations of this curious behavior may even facilitate postwar...
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Assembled Governance from the Local to the Global Community
In the penultimate chapter, I discuss the ways in which CBNRM is able to adapt to a variety of forces and who benefits as a result of these...
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Governance in South African Secondary Cities
South Africa has a well-defined set of secondary cities and a local planning regime that provides a governance framework. Its secondary cities have...
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The mediating role of perceptions of municipal government performance on the relationship between good governance and citizens’ trust in municipal government
Evidence from existing literature shows that good governance practices impact citizens' attitudes and behaviors toward the governing authorities....
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Governance
In recent decades, an increasing number of young actors at the international level are claiming and aspiring to play a significant role in managing...
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Digital governance: government strategies that impact public services
The purpose of this study is to carry out a systematic literature review with meta-analysis, seeking to understand, from the perspective of public...
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Unpacking the blackbox of responsible pandemic governance: of COVID-19, multilevel governance and state capacity in Ghana – A Review
Attempts at mitigating COVID-19 pandemic’s impact has pushed stakeholders’ resolve to incept variegated measures using socially embedded multilevel...
