Urban Governance and Democracy: Leadership and Community Involvement

by Haus,Michael; Haus,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415343619
• ISBN10: 0415343615
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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, focusing 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 toacademics and practitioners concerned with questions of local governance and local democracy, in the fields of political science and urban studies and regional planning.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(11)
Michael Haus
Hubert Heinelt
Murray Stewart
How to achieve governability at the local level? Theoretical and conceptual considerations on a complementarity of urban leadership and community involvement	12	(28)
Michael Haus
Hubert Heinelt
Urban leadership and community involvement: an institutional analysis	40	(25)
Pieter-Jan Klok
Bas Denters
The institutional setting of local political leadership and community involvement	65	(37)
Henry Back
Cities in transition: from statism to democracy	102	(27)
Pawel Swianiewicz
Cities in the multi-level governance of the European Union	129	(20)
Laurence Carmichael
Collaboration in multi-actor governance	149	(19)
Murray Stewart
Changes in urban political leadership: leadership types and styles in the era of urban governance	168	(22)
Panagiotis Getimis
Despoina Grigoriadou
Leading localities -- rethinking the agenda	190	(24)
Robin Hambleton
Legitimacy and community involvement in local governance	214	(20)
Jan Erling Klausen
David Sweeting
Participation and leadership in planning theory and practices	234	(19)
Alessandro Balducci
Claudio Calvaresi
Index	253