Contents: 1. A thematic approach to the research agenda for regional and local government / Mark Callanan and John Loughlin
2. Local and regional autonomy - Indexes and trends / Nicolas Keuffer and Andreas Ladner
3. Territorial restructuring: Amalgamations, secessions and the financial crisis / Paweł Swianiewicz
4. Devolution, functional decentralization or recentralization? Convergence and divergence in the European territorial governance / Romain Pasquier
5. City-regional and metropolitan governance / Niamh Moore-Cherry, Andy Pike and John Tomaney
6. Economizing imaginaries of city-regionalism as politics of city-regionalization / Sami Moisio and Andrew E.G. Jonas
7. Regional and local government and the European Union / Mark Callanan and Micha.l Tatham
8. Managerial reforms from a comparative perspective: European subnational governments in the post-new public management era / Sabine Kuhlmann
9. Citizen involvement in subnational governance: Innovations, trends and questions / Frank Hendriks and Ank Michels
10. Populism and representation at the regional and local levels / Silvia Bolgherini and Davide Vampa
11. Leadership at the subnational level: Mayoral and executive models / Niels Karsten, David Sweeting, Ulrik Kj.r and Simona Kukovič
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