1st Edition
Legitimacy and Urban Governance A Cross-National Comparative Study
1. Introduction and main findings
Panagiotis Getimis, Hubert Heinelt & David Sweeting
2. Sustainability and policy challenge: the cases of economic competitiveness and social inclusion
Michael Haus and Hubert Heinelt
3. Measuring institutional performance in achieving urban sustainability
Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok
4. New urban leaders and community involvement: The Italian case studies
Francesco Procacci and Cristiana Rossignolo
5. Between urban leadership and community involvement: Impacts of EU policies and strong mayors in Greek local government
Despoina Grigoriadou and Nektaria Marava
6. Traces of Governance: Policy networking in Norwegian local government
Gro Sandkjær Hanssen, Jan Erling Klausen and Signy Irene Vabo
7. The interplay of central and local: Social inclusion policy from above in Swedish cities
Adiam Tedros and Folke Johansson
8. Uneven partnerships: Polish city leaders in search of local governance
Pawel Swianiewicz, Adam Mielczarek and Urszula Klimska
9. Tackling community leadership in the confined spaces of local governance in England
Joanna Howard, David Sweeting, Murray Stewart
10. Strong mayors and policy innovations – lessons from two German cities
Björn Egner, Michael Haus, Christine König
11. Between vision and consensus: urban leadership and community involvement in the Dutch cases
Frans Coenen, Bas Denters, Pieter-Jan Klok
12. New Zealand: articulating a long-term vision for community well-being
Christine Cheyne
13. Community involvement and legitimation in urban governance: an empirical analysis
Jan-Erling Klausen, David Sweeting, and Joanna Howard
14. Local leadership in multi-level governance in Europe
Laurence Carmichael
15. Restrictions, opportunities and incentives for leadership and involvement
Henry Bäck
16. City political culture – what is expected from policy actors?
Pawel Swianiewicz
17. Institutional conditions for complementarities between urban leadership and community involvement
Pieter-Jan Klok, Frans Coenen, Bas Denters
18. The role of political leadership in the promotion of legitimation in urban policy: opportunities and constraints
Panagiotis Getimis, Despoina Grigoriadou and Eleni Kyrou
Biography
Hubert Heinelt, David Sweeting, Panagiotis Getimis
"The PLUS collaborators have set a new benchmark for cross-national research in this crucial arena of governance. Researchers in a wide range of relevant fields, from political economy to social policy to the study of civic life, will benefit from close scrutiny of the empirical findings of this project. Although the pluralistic approach of the authors leaves it largely for the reader to draw synthetic conclusions, the overall picture is one of convergent trends across advanced industrial democracies as well as among newer democracies in southern and eastern Europe. At a more general level, the findings underscore the importance of state–society relations and culture within cities as an important element in trajectories of governance worldwide."
Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 2008 (pp. 297–308).
