This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction...

Political leadership at the local level has attracted growing attention in recent years in parall...

This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the may...

The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional auth...

This book explores democracy beyond the governmental structures and focuses on participatory gove...

This book focuses on local state-society relations, understood as institutionalised relations bet...

Die Bürgermeister in Deutschland sind durch die flächendeckende Einführung der Direktwahl des hau...

Title first published in 2003. This book focuses on whether participatory governance can lead to ...

This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governin...