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Handbook on Local and Regional Governance

Handbook on Local and Regional Governance

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This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of recent developments in local and regional governance, offering complementary perspectives from leading scholars. It clarifies the scope of the discipline, provides tools for understanding, and highlights key topics such as actor roles, democracy, place, scale, and networks. The Handbook emphasizes the importance of relationships and collective impact in local and regional governance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 530 pages
Publication date: 13 January 2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd


Complementary perspectives, both theoretical and empirically relevant, are presented in this Handbook's wide-ranging international collection of leading scholars to examine recent developments in the field of local and regional governance.

This Handbook significantly expands upon the existing literature in the field, clarifying the discipline's scope and offering valuable tools, information, and research questions to enhance our understanding and exploration of the field. The chapters provide a theoretical and empirical foundation for current debates on local and regional governance, presenting competing analytical lenses that shed light on various aspects of the field. Topics covered include the intricate interplay of roles, limitations, opportunities, and influence among actors, democracy, place, scale, and networks. Thorough examinations are conducted of social cohesion, intermunicipal decentralization, and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on the relationships that shape local and regional governance.

This Handbook adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach, making it an invigorating read for students and scholars seeking to deepen their understanding of contemporary policy, politics, and subnational governance at local and regional levels. By bringing together diverse perspectives and expertise, it contributes to a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the complex dynamics and challenges facing local and regional governance in the modern world.

Weight: 1066g
Dimension: 250 x 176 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800371194

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