The quality of local governance matters more than ever before. To many citizens, their local government is the most tangible form of government, and it is also

An examination of the transformation of South Africa's apartheid local government system into a development-oriented system of municipal governance, requiring,

An examination of how the (hyper)local is the locus of real change Many of America’s downtowns, waterfronts, and innovation districts have experienced signifi

Drawing on fundamental ideas about the relationship of citizens to the public sphere, Richard C Box presents a model of `citizen governance'. Recognizing the ch

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