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...

Across the globe, local governments have increasingly begun to rely on municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to provide public services, mounting to what scholars describe as a burgeoning corporatization in local government. Some studies have described this development as a rational response to...