There are high political and policy expectations of local and voluntary initiatives of citizens
collaborating to provide public services themselves. Despite rising attention, existing …

This article is a systematic literature review on social innovation in inner peripheries. It
investigates what actors (who), processes (how), and topics (what) emerge from the …

Urban regeneration in the historic core of Chinese cities largely follows one of two
possibilities–'demolition-reconstruction,'by tearing down old houses to make room for new …

This editorial introduces the special feature on the role of game-changers, broadly
conceptualized as macro-trends that change the “rules of the game,” in processes of …

This article deals with the evolution of community self-organization in public administration.
Within the literature of interactive governance, increasing attention is being paid to how …

Previous research has extensively analyzed the role, and indicated the importance, of
network management for the functioning and performance of public or governance networks …

Self-organization is a concept that is often used to legitimize a government's retreat from
sectors in which it has traditionally played a vital role. In this article, we analyse how the …

Since the 1980s and due to the ongoing complexity and diffuseness of global networked
societies, planners have tried to move beyond classic technocratic and/or sociocratic ideas …

In recent years stakeholder participation has become a popular topic in flood management.
Little is known about how and under which circumstances local stakeholders initiate and …

Many European countries are implementing austerity measures alongside trends of welfare
state retrenchment. Entrepreneurial forms of active citizenship are considered as a new form …