Perspectives on Local Governance Across Europe: Insights on Local State-Society Relations

388 Pages·2022·8.85 MB·English

by  Björn Egner, Hubert Heinelt, Jakub Lysek, Patricia Silva, Filipe Teles

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN
SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNANCE
Perspectives on Local
Governance Across Europe
Insights on Local State-Society
Relations
Edited by
Björn Egner · Hubert Heinelt
Jakub Lysek · Patricia Silva
Filipe Teles
Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
Series Editors
Linze Schaap
Tilburg University
Tilburg, The Netherlands
Jochen Franzke
University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Hanna Vakkala
University of Lapland
Rovaniemi, Finland
Filipe Teles
University of Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal
This series explores the formal organisation of sub-national government
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Björn Egner • Hubert Heinelt
Jakub Lysek • Patricia Silva • Filipe Teles
Editors
Perspectives on Local
Governance Across
Europe
Insights on Local State-Society Relations
Editors
Björn Egner Hubert Heinelt
Institute of Political Science Institute of Political Science
Technical University Darmstadt Technical University Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany Darmstadt, Germany
Jakub Lysek Patricia Silva
Department of Political Science and Department of Social and
European Studies Political Science
Palacky University in Olomouc University of Aveiro
Olomouc, Czech Republic Aveiro, Portugal
Filipe Teles
Department of Social and
Political Science
University of Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal
ISSN 2523-8248 ISSN 2523-8256 (electronic)
Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance
ISBN 978-3-031-14999-3 ISBN 978-3-031-15000-5 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15000-5
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ontents
1 Introduction: The Book’s Scope and Content 1
Björn Egner, Hubert Heinelt, Jakub Lysek, Patricia Silva, and
Filipe Teles
Part I General Insights on Local State- Society Relations 15
2 Devil in Details: Beyond Deceptive Comparisons of
European Local Governments 17
Filipe Teles
3 The Notion of Democracy Among Actors Involved in
Local State-Society Relations 47
Hubert Heinelt and Björn Egner
4 Determining the Democratic Quality of Non- Electoral
Representation in Local State–Society Networks 63
Karin Fossheim and Hans Vollaard
5 Legitimacy Claims of Societal Actors Involved in Local
State-Society Relations 85
Björn Egner and Hubert Heinelt
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vi CONTENTS
6 Ideology, Trust and Autonomy: Differences Between
Elected Politicians and All Other Participants of Local
State-Society Networks 101
Carmen Walenta-Bergmann
7 Does Metagovernance Matter? The Patterns and Effects
of Local Politicians’ Participation in Local State-Society
Relations 117
Tom Verhelst and Koenraad De Ceuninck
8 The Unbearable Lightness of Coherence Within Local
Governance Arrangements 141
Patricia Silva, Luís Mota, and Filipe Teles
9 Throughput Legitimacy in European Local State-Society
Networks 161
Carmen Navarro, Carles Pamies, and Lluís Medir
10 Collaborative Governance and the Rescaling of Local-
State Society Networks 181
Marcello Cabria and Annick Magnier
Part II Network-Specific Insights on Local State-Society
Relations 203
11 The Prevalence of Low-Relevance Networks in Central
and Eastern Europe and the Post- Communist Legacy 205
Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė, Jakub Lysek, and Aistė Lazauskienė
12 Advisory Councils at the Local Level: Do they Add
Value for Participation? 225
Iveta Reinholde, Malvın̄ e Stučka, and Inese Āboliņa
13 How Members of Youth Network in Europe Perceive
Their Influence 241
Linnéa Henriksson and Janette Huttunen
CONTENTS vii
14 Participation Without Influence? On the Role of
Councils for Elderly and Councils on Disability 261
David Feltenius and Linnéa Henriksson
15 Organized Business and Trade Unions in Local
Governance 281
Detlef Sack
16 Alike in Diversity? Local Action Groups in Nine
European Countries 301
Jakub Lysek, Joanna Krukowska, Carmen Navarro,
Alistair Jones, and Colin Copus
17 Power to Rule: The Perception of Power and Relevance
in Local Educational Networks in Europe 319
Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir and Grétar Thór Eythórsson
Annex I: How Was the Survey Conducted in the
Individual Countries? 337
Annex II: Data about the Survey 363
Index 369
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otes on ontributors
Inese Ābolina̧ is Assistant Professor and Researcher at the University of
Latvia, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics. Her research
focuses on public administration and governance aspects of leadership and
decision-making. Her research interests include network governance, dig-
ital governance, formation of democracy, and business development in
aviation and remote work.
Jurga Bucǎ ite-̇ Vilke ̇ is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology,
Faculty of Social Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania). Her
research focuses on participatory democracy, local governance, and local social
welfare policies. She has been involved in several research projects on local
governance, community participation, and territorial welfare policies. She is
the Head of Department of Sociology (since 2020).
Marcello  Cabria is research fellow at the Department of Cultures,
Politics and Society, University of Turin. His main research interests are
local development and territorial dimensions of social phenomena.
Colin Copus is Emeritus Professor of Local Politics at De Montfort
University and Visiting Professor at Ghent University. His main research
interests are local party politics, the constitutional status of local govern-
ment and the developing role of the councilor. He has extensive experi-
ence as an academic advisor to government and policy bodies.
Koenraad De Ceuninck is Associate Professor of local politics at the
Centre for Local Politics of Ghent University, Belgium. His main research
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areas are scale and local government, municipal mergers and inter-
municipal cooperation. Reforms of local government or decision-making
at the local level also enjoy his attention.
Björn Egner is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Political Science,
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests
include local politics, quantitative methodology, and policy analysis, espe-
cially housing policy and fiscal policy.
Grétar Thór Eythórsson is Professor in Government and Methodology
at the University of Akureyri, Iceland (2008). He was Director of the
University of Akureyri Research Institute and the Icelandic Institute for
Regional Policy Research (2001–2005), Director of Bifröst University
Research Centre (2005–2008) and Professor at Bifröst University
(2005–2008). His research has for long, been local government and poli-
tics—especially territorial reforms. Further, he has done research related
to regional and rural development and politics. He was a board member
of Nordregion (Nordic and European research center for regional devel-
opment and planning) in 2002-2007 and is, since 2009, the contact point
(ECP) for Iceland in ESPON (European Territorial Observatory
Network).
David Feltenius is Associate Professor at the Department of Political
Science in Umeå, Sweden. In addition to studies on marketization and the
welfare state, his research focuses on central-local government relations.
Feltenius is working in a research project on public welfare providers in a
marketized welfare state and another project on negotiated agreements
within the policy field of health care in Sweden.
Karin Fossheim is a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo and a
researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics in Oslo, Norway. Her
research interests include democracy, representation, and collaborative
governance.
Hubert Heinelt is retired Professor of Public Administration, Public
Policy and Urban Research at the Institute of Political Science, Technische
Universität Darmstadt, Germany. Between 2010 and 2013, he was
President of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). His
research covers various policies (particularly labor market, e nvironment,
and climate policy) in multi-level systems. Furthermore, he is interested in