The 2011 Summer School aims at organizing specialized courses for Ph.D. students whose research topics are related to the field of public policies and local government. Given the latest institutional reforms that have been made in countries such as Denmark and Greece, this year‘s Summer School gives emphasis on the evaluation of territorial and functional reforms and the methodology used for this purpose. The main topics of this summer school are going to be: 1. a) Does ―scale‖ matter for achieving effective governance? Territorial restructuring, b) Do ―institutions‖ matter? Local government systems and territorial reforms; 2. Does ―size‖ matter for local democracy? Accountability, effectiveness and legitimacy; 3. How to measure the results of institutional reforms? Evaluation of institutional change and performance of newly established institutional settings; 4. How to explain administrative reforms?