Not all politics is local. Not even local politics is necessarily local. The reemergence of local
politics is not comparable to the nationalization of politics but is rather an element making …

Local autonomy is a highly valued feature of good governance. The continuous efforts of
many European countries to strengthen the autonomy of local government show the …

European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization
and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

Spatial planning aspires to be an interdisciplinary and cross-cutting coordinator of sectoral
policies and decisions with spatial impacts, including those concerned with the environment …

Of all socio-technological innovations, it is perhaps the Internet that has been most
extensively associated with democracy. From across the field of Internet Studies—and to a …

Voters reward or punish politicians by deeming them responsible for positive and negative
outcomes, but how, in turn, do politicians attribute responsibility to those who actually deliver …

The most widely used typologies of European local government systems are based on
research conducted in the 1980s. The most popular are those of Page and Goldsmith …

This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local
democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how …

Across the globe policy makers implement, and academics teach and undertake research
upon, place-based policy. But what is place-based policy, what does it aspire to achieve …