- Michiel S de Vries, Chair of the department of Public Administration, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, [email protected]
Michiel S de Vries holds the chair in Public Administration at the Radboud University of Nijmegen and is visiting professor at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He is president of IASIA, full member of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government of the Council of Europe and member of the editorial board of numerous journals on Public Administration. His research concentrates on local government, public sector reform, policy evaluation, policy change and comparative public administration.- Daniel Klimovský, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Science, [email protected]
- Tim Jäkel, National Research University Higher School of Economics: School of Public Administration, Russia, [email protected]
The working group on Local Governance deals with all sub-national levels of governance from several points of view: regulation, structure, organisation, functioning, finance, representation, election and public policies, etc. The WG especially welcomes empirical research results, comparative analysis, theoretical contributions, and interdisciplinary approaches are, of course, supported, too.
The working group invites papers dealing with topics such as:
• Local democracy, the role of town councils, new forms of participation;
• New horizontal linkages between local governments and state agencies in public service delivery;
• Size, scales, capacities, cooperation of municipalities;
• New challenges in public policy at local and regional level;
• The context in which local governments have to operate;
• Stakeholders inside the municipality;
• Intergovernmental relations between the local, regional, national and European levels.
For the 2023 NISPA conference, we also welcome papers that translate the conference theme to issues at the local level.
Thus, general research papers on developments in local government in CEE countries are welcomed as well as theoretical and empirical papers that address issues related to the conference theme.
Proposals for papers to be presented at the 2023 NISPA conference should include the following:
1. The names of the authors and their affiliation;
2. The research question to be answered in the paper;
3. The way in which the research question is going to be answered;
4. Information about the case(s)/data to be analysed;
5. The relevance of the paper for the working group.
From participants of this working group full paper is required before the conference.
Deadline of full paper submission is 10/05/2023.
You can find manuscript guidelines on THIS LINK.