Close Ties in European Local Governance: Linking Local State and Society (Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance)

This book develops and tests a typology of local state-society relations. To deliver such a comparative study on institutionalized relations between local government and societal actors at the municipal level in Europe, the book identifies and classifies country-specific patterns of these institutionalized governance networks. This work explores the diversity within these institutionalized networks, approaching it from a strong comparative perspective that is anchored on a new typology allowing a more robust analysis of the identifiable patterns. It is a study with appeal to scholars and students of local government, public administration and political science as well as to those pursuing this debate and implementing similar agendas as practitioners. Filipe Teles is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Adam Gendźwiłł is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Human Geography at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Cristina Stănus is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Hubert Heinelt is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research at the Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Interactions of Societal Actors and Local Government in Institutionalized Governance Arrangements: The Book’s Scope and Content (Filipe Teles, Adam Gendźwiłł, Cristina Stănuş, Hubert Heinelt)....Pages 1-12 Diversity in Local State-Society Relations: A Typology to Grasp Differences in Institutional Networks (Filipe Teles)....Pages 13-30 How to Measure the Autonomy, Coherence and Relevance of Local State-Society Relations (Björn Egner, Hubert Heinelt, Detlef Sack)....Pages 31-38 Local State-Society Relations in Austria (Werner Pleschberger)....Pages 39-53 Local State–Society Relations in Flanders (Belgium) (Koenraad De Ceuninck, Tom Verhelst)....Pages 55-72 Local State–Society Relations in Croatia (Ivan Koprić, Dubravka Jurlina Alibegović, Romea Manojlović Toman, Dario Čepo, Sunčana Slijepčević)....Pages 73-89 Local State-Society Relations in the Czech Republic (Jakub Lysek, Dan Ryšavý)....Pages 91-104 Local State-Society Relations in England (Alistair Jones, Colin Copus)....Pages 105-115 Local State-Society Relations in Finland (Linnéa Henriksson)....Pages 117-131 Local State-Society Relations in France (Deborah Galimberti)....Pages 133-148 Local State-Society Relations in Germany (Björn Egner, Hubert Heinelt, Detlef Sack)....Pages 149-164 Local State-Society Relations in Greece (Panagiotis Getimis)....Pages 165-180 Local State–Society Relations in Iceland (Grétar Þór Eyþórsson, Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir)....Pages 181-193 Local State-Society Relations in Ireland (Paula Russell)....Pages 195-213 Local State-Society Relations in Italy (Annick Magnier, Marcello Cabria)....Pages 215-230 Local State-Society Relations in Latvia (Iveta Reinholde, Inese Āboliņa, Malvine Stučka)....Pages 231-242 Local State-Society Relations in Lithuania (Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė, Aistė Lazauskienė)....Pages 243-257 Local State-Society Relations in the Netherlands (Hans Vollaard)....Pages 259-274 Local State-Society Relations in Norway (Karin Fossheim)....Pages 275-288 Local State–Society Relations in Poland (Adam Gendźwiłł, Joanna Krukowska, Paweł Swianiewicz)....Pages 289-302 Local State-Society Relations in Portugal (Luís Mota, Patrícia Silva, Filipe Teles)....Pages 303-318 Local State-Society Relations in Romania (Cristina Stănuș, Daniel Pop)....Pages 319-335 Local State-Society Relations in Spain (Carmen Navarro, Lluis Medir)....Pages 337-351 Local State-Society Relations in Sweden (Anders Lidström, David Feltenius)....Pages 353-366 Local State-Society Relations in Switzerland (Oliver Dlabac)....Pages 367-377 Local State-Society Relations in European Countries: Main Findings (Hubert Heinelt, Filipe Teles, Adam Gendźwiłł, Cristina Stănuş)....Pages 379-422 Back Matter ....Pages 423-427 This book develops and tests a typology of local state-society relations. To deliver such a comparative study on institutionalized relations between local government and societal actors at the municipal level in Europe, the book identifies and classifies country-specific patterns of these institutionalized governance networks. This work explores the diversity within these institutionalized networks, approaching it from a strong comparative perspective that is anchored on a new typology allowing a more robust analysis of the identifiable patterns. It is a study with appeal to scholars and students of local government, public administration and political science as well as to those pursuing this debate and implementing similar agendas as practitioners. Filipe Teles is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Adam Gendźwiłł is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Human Geography at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Cristina Stănus is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Hubert Heinelt is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research at the Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany