Spain has a population distribution dispersed in small population centres where 60% of municipalities have less than 1,000 inhabitants. This situation generates a financial and functional incapacity to guarantee the successful and efficient provision of local public services. In order to fulfil...

Governments at central and sub-national levels are increasingly pursuing participatory mechanisms in a bid to improve governance and service delivery. This has been largely in the context of decentralization reforms in which central governments transfer (share) political, administrative, fiscal...

Teil I - Neue Denkanstöße und Ideen: Smart City: Wo liegen Innovationspotenziale im öffentlichen Sektor + Sind Frauen die besseren Innovatoren? + Die Rolle der Hochschulen für den öffentlichen Dienst in Innovationsprozessen von Kommunen und Staat -- Teil II - Rahmenbedingungen für...