The literature on social capital has strongly increased in the last two decades, but there still is a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of international trust. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey,...

The literature on social capital has strongly increased in the last two decades, but there still is a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of international trust. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey,...

The literature on social capital has strongly increased in the last two decades, but there still is a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of international trust. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals, using micro-data from the World Values Survey,...

Over the last decade or so, the debate on the planning and development of the Paris (Île-de-France) region has revolved around two little words: "Grand Paris", or Greater Paris. Despite existing political and scientific controversies surrounding the future of the capital region, three major...

This paper summarizes findings from a soon to be published manuscript entitled Global City Regions in Transition: The Struggle for Governability in London, New York, Paris and Tokyo by Paul Kantor, Christian Lefevre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch and Andy Thornley. Our survey demonstrates that...

It is exactly ten years since Allen Scott’s (2001a) edited collection ‘Global City-Regions - Trends, Theory, Policy’ became the antecedent to a resurgent interest among academic and policy communities in the ‘city-region’ concept. In the book, Scott and his fellow contributors...