Urban Governance and Democracy: Leadership and Community Involvement

Overview

The issue of local governance is currently high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book explores the relationship between two key issues for urban governance - leadership and community involvement - and how making these two elements more complementary one to the other can lead to more effective as well as legitimate policy outcomes. The authors examine the dilemmas involved in ensuring effective governance, focussing on issues such as legitimacy, citizen participation, economic performance and social inclusion.
*Part I identifies the key themes and provides the framework of the main arguments in the book, offering an overall conceptual model.
*Part II develops this model providing a detailed discussion of key elements such as multi-level and multi-actor governance, leadership, community involvement and performance indicators etc.
*Part III explores the policy and practice implications.
This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners concerned with questions of local governance and local democracy, in the fields of political science and urban studies and regional planning.

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Author Information

Bio of Michael Haus

Michael Haus is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science at Darmstadt University of Technology. His current research focuses on the institutional design of local government in a comparative perspective. Recent publications include: *B�rgergesellschaft, soziales Kapital und lokale Politik, Leske & Budrich: Opladen 2002 (editor).

Bio of Hubert Heinelt

Hubert Heinelt is Professor of Public Administration/Public Policy and Urban Studies at the Institute for Political Science at Darmstadt University of Technology. His current research focuses on local policy and politics and European integration and EU cohesion policy, as well as on issues of participatory governance. He is co-chair of the study group "Lokale Politikforschung" of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), a member of the executive board of the European Urban Research Association (EURA), as well as co- of the series Gesellschaftspolitik und Staatst�tigkeit of Leske & Budrich, Opladen. His recent publications include: *Brennpunkt Stadt. Stadtpolitik und lokale Politikforschung in den 80er und 90er Jahren (Stadtforschung aktuell 31), Birkh�user: Basel/Boston/Berlin 1991 (editor, together with Hellmut Wollmann) *Politik in europ�ischen St�dten. Fallstudien zur Bedeutung lokaler Politik (Stadtforschung aktuell 38), Birkh�user: Basel/Boston/Berlin 1993 (editor, together with Margit Mayer) *Policy Networks and European Structural Funds. A Comparison between Member States, Avebury: London 1996 (together with Randall Smith) *Zivile Gesellschaft. Entwicklung, Defizite und Potentiale, Leske & Budrich: Opladen 1997 (together with Klaus M. Schmals)

Bio of Murray Stewart

Murray Stewart is Reader at the University of the West of England, Bristol and was Director of the Cities research centre at the University of the West of England, Bristol 1997-2002. His current research activities include participation in the national evaluations of the New Deal for Communi

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Additional Info

Imprint

Taylor & Francis

Filesize

3.80 MB

Number of Pages

256

eBook ISBN

9780203340950