Urban governance and democracy
Subtitle: leadership and community involvement
By: edited by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt and Murray Stewart.
Contributors: Haus, Michael.; Heinelt, Hubert.; Stewart, Murray.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Municipal government -- Citizen participation.; Municipal government -- OECD countries.; Community leadership -- OECD countries.; Community development -- OECD countries.; Public-private sector cooperation -- OECD countries.; Cities and towns -- OECD countries.; Democracy -- OECD countries.; OECD countries -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt and Murray Stewart; title: How to achieve governability at the local level? : theoretical and conceptual considerations on a complementarity of urban leadership and community involvement; title: Michael Haus and Hubert Heinelt; title: Urban leadership and community involvement : an institutional analysis / Pieter-Jan Klok and Bas Deters; title: The institutional setting of local political leadership and community involvement / Henry Buck; title: States in transition : from statism to democracy / Pawel Swianiewicz; title: Cities in the European multi-level governance / Laurence Carmichael; title: Collaboration in multi-actor governance / Murray Stewart; title: Changes in urban political leadership : leadership types and styles in the era of urban governance / Panagiotis Getimis & Despoina Grigoriadou; title: Leading localities : rethinking the agenda / Robin Hambleton; title: Legitimacy and community involvement in local governance / Jan Erling Klausen & David Sweeting; title: Participation and leadership in planning theory and practices / Alessandro Balducci & Claudio Calvaresi.