PSG IV: Local Governance and Democracy

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Authors Titles
Tomas BERGSTRÖM

Lund University – Sweden

Grassroots Governance in Swedish Municipalities. A Supplement or “Wikipedia Government”?
Ylva Norén BRETZER

Gothenburg University – Sweden

Is Partnership Governance Necessary in local building refurbishing projects? ̶ four Swedish experiences
Jochen FRANZKE, Markus SEYFRIED

University of Potsdam – Gerrmany

The Unknown Representatives.

Elections of District Councillors and District Mayors and their Role in Grassroots Governance in the Federal State of Brandenburg

Chris GAME

Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV), University of Birmingham – United Kingdom

Neighbourhood empowerment British style: the varying forms of ‘grassroots governance’ in England’s unitary counties
Liisa HÄIKIÖ

University of Tampere  – Finland

From grassroots democracy to grassroots governance? The case of  Finland
Yuko KANEKO

University of Yamagata – Japan

Contribution of Citizens’ Activities to Community Development in Japan
Jelizaveta KRENJOVA, Ringa RAUDLA

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Participatory Budgeting at the Local Level:

Challenges and Opportunities for New Democracies

Lieke OLDENHOF,  Kim PUTTERS,

Annemiek Stoopendaal

Erasmus University – The Netherlands

Constructing leadership in neighbourhood governance: everyone ‘in the lead’?
Agnieszka  PAWLOWSKA

University of Rzeszow – Poland

Driving and restraining forces of intersectorial partnerships in rural areas (the case of local action groups in Podkarpackie region, Poland

 

Brigitte POULSEN

Roskilde University – Denmark

The Everyday Peace Maker – How public administrators in local welfare institutions handle conflicts in every day processes of collaboration and co-existing modes of governance
Katarzyna RADZIK-MARUSZAK

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland

Katarzyna MIECZKOWSKA-CZERNIAK

Mayor’s Office of Lublin City, Poland

From Indifference to Protest: Citizen Activity at the Local Level in Poland
Paulo E. R. RESENDE

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and Universidade Vila Velha – Brazil

Dave MCKENNA

Swansea University – UK

Martin KARLSSON

Örebro University – Sweden

Context versus structure: How local political elites respond to co-governance initiatives in different national settings
Ugur SADIOGLU

Kadir DEDE,

Ugur OMURGONULSEN

Hacettepe University – Turkey

City councils as a grassroots governance practice in Turkey
Reto STEINER

Claire KAISER

KPM, Bern University – Switzerland

Local Leaders and the Implementation of Local Government Reforms
Filipe TELES

University of Aveiro – Portugal

Outsourced Local Governance: an exploratory study on third sector’s artificial autonomy
Ted van de WIJDEVEN, Marcel BOOGERS

Tilburg University – The Netherlands

Understanding grassroots governance

Or: how to bring government back into the Big Society