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In addition to a range of conference papers and journal articles, the primary outputs from the project are two major books. Book 1: DEMOCRACY: LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT The first is edited by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt and Murray Stewart, and published by Routledge in 2004. It presents a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between leadership and community involvement and for assessing the capacity of local governance to deliver more effective as well as more legitimate policy outcomes. The book, involving authors from all the national research teams, provides an innovative conceptual framework which has been used to analyse the eighteen cities. The book explores and substantiates the argument that the complementarity between participation and leadership is a crucial question for increasing the quality of urban governance. Aims The main aim of this book is to make the case for putting urban leadership and community involvement together at the heart of research and policy relating to the conditions of good urban governance, and to explore and substantiate the argument that complementarity between both aspects is a crucial question. This takes in a review of the state of research carried out so far on these subjects, identification of the most appropriate and relevant research considerations, formulation of plausible hypotheses on the possible complementarities between urban leadership and community involvement (CULCI), and a re-interpretation of concepts and theories . This links theoretical, conceptual and comparative perspectives to reflect on the practical relevance of the book’s main questions with respect to "democratic choices for cities". List of Content DEMOCRACY: LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Chapter 1. Introduction by Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt and Murray Stewart Chapter 2. How to achieve Governability at the Local Level? by Michael Haus and Hubert Heinelt Chapter 3. Leadership, community involvement and institutional arenas by Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok Chapter 4. Institutional Settings of Leadership and Community Involvement by Henry Bäck Chapter 5. States in Transition: From statism to democracy by Pawel Swianiewicz Chapter 6. Cities in the Multi-level Governance by Laurence Carmichael Chapter 7. Collaboration in Multi-actor Governance by Murray Stewart Chapter 8. Changes in Urban Political Leadership by Panagiotis Getimis and Despoina Grigoriadou Chapter 9. Leading Localities – Rethinking the Agenda by Robin Hambleton Chapter 10. Legitimacy and Community Involvement by Jan Erling Klausen and David Sweeting Chapter 11. Participation and leadership in planning theory and practice by Alessandro Balducci and Claudio Calvaresi The editors Michael Haus was born in 1970 in Wiesbaden (Germany). He obtained his PhD in Political Science from the University of Heidelberg in 1999. Since 2000, he has been working at the Institute for Political Science at Darmstadt University of Technology (since 2000 as an Assistant Professor). His current research focuses on the institutional design of local government in a comparative perspective. Recent publications relevant to the theme of the proposed volume include:
Hubert Heinelt, born in 1952 in Wunstorf (Germany), is currently professor for public administration/public policy and urban studies at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft of Darmstadt University of Technology. He obtained his PhD on social policy from the University of Hannover in 1980, and a Habilitation for political science from the University of Hannover in 1990. His current research focuses on local policy and politics (involved in the UDITE Leadership Study with Poul Erik Mouritzen, Michael Goldsmith and others), on European integration and EU cohesion policy (two research projects on the historical development of the EU structural funds and the relation of the structural funds and national regional policies funded by the German Research Council and the Hans-Böckler-Foundation), as well as on issues of participatory governance (co-ordinator in the project "Achieving sustainable and innovative policies through participatory governance in a multi-level context" funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme). He is chair (together with Jörg Bogumil and Angelika Vetter) of the study group "Lokale Politikforschung" of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), a member of the executive board of the European Urban Research Association (EURA), as well as co-editor (with Bernhard Blanke, Roland Czada, Adrienne Héritier, Gerhard Lehmbruch and Manfred G. Schmidt) of the series Gesellschaftspolitik und Staatstätigkeit of Leske & Budrich, Opladen. His recent publications, relevant to the volume proposed here, include:
Murray Stewart was born in 1939 in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a degree in Political economy he has worked in the British civil service in London, and at the Universities of Glasgow, Kent at Canterbury, Bristol and West of England. He was Director of the School for Advanced Urban studies, Bristol from 1983-88 and has been Director of the Cities research centre at the University of the West of England, Bristol 1997-2002. He is engaged with two European Framework 5 projects – he leads the PLUS project to which this submission relates and is also part of an eight country neighbourhood sustainability project led from Sophia Antipolis. Within the UK his current research activities include participation in the national evaluations of the New Deal for Communities and of Local Strategic Partnerships. He led the major DTLR project on co-ordination of area-based initiatives and has recently completed an ESRC project on leadership in urban governance, and was part of the team undertaking the Bristol Integrated City project within the ESRC Cities: Competition and Cohesion programme. He was a member of the Social Exclusion Unit PAT 17 Policy Action Team, (Joining It Up Locally), and is the academic member of the Regional Co-ordination Unit Advisory Group. He was a Board member of the Bristol Regeneration Partnership 1996-2002 and from 1994-1998 he chaired the Bristol Common Purpose advisory group. He is Deputy Chairman (and South West Trustee) of the Lloyds/TSB Foundation for England and Wales. Relevant recent publications include
Collaboration and Co-ordination in Area-based initiatives DTLR/NRU 2002
Book 2: LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION Searching for Sustainability in European Cities A second book, edited by Panagiotis Getimis, Hubert Heinelt and David Sweeting, is expected to be published in late 2005. This second book will set out the findings from the project. Aims The second book will present the comparative empirical findings from the project. In keeping with the spirit of the European funding, the project and the group of authors involved in this book address experiences of EU member states ( England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Greece) and of accession countries (Poland), as well as of non EU member state experiences from Norway. The main theme of the book is the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance – leadership and community involvement. The research project has studied these issues in 16 cities from 8 countries. In each city one case in the field of social inclusion and one case in the area of promotion urban competitiveness were analysed, making 32 cases of urban intervention the subject of empirical investigation. Findings will illuminate the various different mechanisms that may potentially arise between leadership and community involvement within different institutional environments and contexts and the various degrees therein in terms of their complementarity that lead to (or not) more or less effective and legitimate policy outcomes. The book’s principal themes are underpinned by a specifically developed common theoretical approach and methodological model (presented in detail the first book) and will aim to present, analyse and disseminate practical knowledge about the complementary of urban leadership and community involvement and its outcomes.
List of Content LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION Searching for Sustainability in European Cities Chapter 1 Introduction by Panagiotis Getimis Hubert Heinelt and David Sweeting Chapter 2 Sustainability and Policy Challenge by Michael Haus and Hubert Heinelt Chapter 3 Measuring Institutinal performance by Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok Chapters 4 – 11 Chapters on the eight individual countries covered by the study Chapter 12 Political leadership and CULCI by Panagiotis Getimis and Despoina Grigoriadou Chapter 13 City Leadership in the European Multi-level Governance by Laurence Carmichael Chapter 14 Community Involvement and CULCI by Joanna Howard, Jan Erling Klausen and David Sweeting Chapter 15 Restrictions, Opportunities and incentives for leadership and involvement by Henry Bäck Chapter 16 Political Culture and CULCI by Pawel Swianiewicz Chapter 17 Institutional Conditions for CULCI: theory and practice by Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok Chapter 18 The Co-existence of Legitimation and effectiveness in CULCI by Panagiotis Getimis, Eleni Kyrou and Despoina Grigoriadou The Editors Panayiotis Getimis, born in Patras (Greece) in 1952, is currently a Professor for Urban and Regional Politics and planning at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens. He obtained his PhD on Urban and Regional Policy, from the Technical University of Berlin (1980). He is a founding member and co-Director of the journal TOPOS: review of urban and regional studies (ISSN 1105-3267). He is the Director of Research Institute of Urban Environment and Human Resources at Panteion University. He has been the President of the Scientific Board of the National Center for Public Administration from 1998 until 2001 and Vice-Vector of Panteion University from 1993-1998. His current research focuses on urban and regional policy, European integration and cohesion policy and on issues of local policies and governance. His publications relevant to the volume proposed here include:
Hubert Heinelt (see in Book 1 above, in the "editors" section). David Sweeting was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1968. He is Research Fellow in the Cities Research Centre at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He studied Social Policy at the University of Portsmouth and Public Administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science, before he was awarded a PhD in 2000 for his thesis on local democracy in local governance, also from the University of Portsmouth. His research interests include public participation, local political leadership, and comparative local governance studies. He has worked on a study called ‘leadership in urban governance’ funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion Programme, and (with Annick Magnier, Hubert Heinelt and others) on the Political Leaders in European Cities research project. He has published book chapters and journal articles on interactive governance, municipal decision-making, and local political leadership. Recent publications relevant to the theme of the proposed volume include:
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