The interpretation, application and understanding of community participation, the South African local government discourse in particular, is ambiguous, thus, creating a more simplistic and superficial meaning for operationalization. This paper seeks to challenge the notion that community...

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...

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...

How do cultural practices influence the process of participatory governance within local administrative structures? We address this question by reflecting cultural dimensions, such as collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and power distance within a contextual sensitive "cultural sensemaking"...