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The road to Europe: Main street or backward alley for local governements in Europe?

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The Road to Europe: Main Street or Backward Alley for Local Governments in Europe? 13 Eline Van Bever, Herwig Reynaert and Kristof Steyvers

Chapter 1. Twenty Years On: The Europeanization of Local Govern- ment 31 Mike Goldsmith

Chapter 2. Fluid Local Party Systems: A bottom-up challenge for European multi-level governance? as an exemplary case 49 Everhard Holtmann

Chapter 3. Swedish local government in multi-level governance 69 Stig Montin

Chapter 4. ‘Resisting Europeanization?’ Continuities and Changes in Governance in Vienna 91 Alexander Hamedinger

Chapter 5. Fusing Regions? Sustainable Regional Action and European Integration. Nordic Regional Action in a Fused Europe? 115 Magnus Lindh and Lee Miles

Chapter 6. A Fusion Perspective on European Integration of Local Government in Baden-Wu¨rttemberg 137 Marius Guderjan

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Chapter 7. Local Authorities in the Council of Europe: Implications for the European Union 163 Jing Pan

Chapter 8. A Multi-level Governance Analysis of Urban Foreign Policy. The Role of the EU in City-to-City Cooperation 187 Nico van der Heiden

Chapter 9. The Europeanization of the Local Government in the EU Multi-level Governance System: The City Networking Paradigm and the Greek Case 209 Antonios Karvounis

Chapter 10. Together we are strong(er). Cross-border cooperation in a EU multi-level system 231 Eline Van Bever, Herwig Reynaert and Kristof Steyvers

Chapter 11. From the reticular Europe to the contiguous Union 251 Christian Lamour

Chapter 12. The (German) Local Level as an Actor in European Lobbying. Involvement and Impact of the Local Level in the European Policy- Making Process 277 Sonja Witte

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About the authors

Eline Van Bever is a PhD student at the Centre for Local Politics, De- partment of Political Science of Ghent University. Currently she is working on the topic of local-level Europeanization. In particular, she researches the impact of the EU opportunity-structure on local partic- ipation in cross-border arrangements. Beside her research topic, she is particularly interested in local elections and local political leadership. Herwig Reynaert is professor at the Department of Political Science at Ghent University. He is chairman of the Centre for Local Politics and chairman of the Urban Policy Research Centre. He also is dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent University. He is spe- cialized in (comparative) local politics. He organizes the congresses Local and Provincial Politics and the International Congress on Local Politics in Europe. He also is member of the Executive Committee of the book series ‘Comparative Local Politics’ (Vanden Broele and No- mos Verlagsgesellschaft). Kristof Steyvers is lecturer at the Department of Political Science of Ghent University, where he teaches comparative politics, parties and party systems and comparative local politics. His research is con- ducted in the Centre for Local Politics and the Urban Policy Research Centre. His main research interests are comparative local politics, lo- cal political leadership, parties and elections at the local level, local government reform and urban politics. He has published in journals such as local government studies, acta politica, parliamentary affairs, public management review and lex localis. The journal of local self- government. He is the co-editor of the book series ‘Comparative local politics’ (Vanden Broele and Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft).

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Mike Goldsmith is Emeritus Professor Politics at the University of Sal- ford and Visiting Professorial Fellow at De Montfort University. He has written and researched extensively in the field of comparative urban politics and local government. His latest publication, co-edited with Ed Page, is Changing Government Relations in Europe, published by Routledge in 2010. Everhard Holtmann is Dr. phil. at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wit- tenberg, Institute for Political Science and Japanese Studies. He also is Chair for Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics and Speaker of Collaborative Research Centre 580 (Social Developments after Struc- tural Change). His research fields are: Parties and Party Systems, Vot- ing behaviour, Local Politics and Regional Political Culture. Stig Montin is professor in Public Administration at the School of Pub- lic Administration, Gothenburg University. His general research inter- ests are local and regional politics, governance and democracy and especially institutional change and policy change within the context of urban and regional sustainable development. Alexander Hamedinger holds the position of an assistant professor at the Centre of Sociology, Vienna University of Technology, Department of Spatial Development, Infrastructure and Environmental Planning. He is an economist and sociologist; in research and teaching Dr. Ha- medinger concentrates on the topics urban/regional governance, ur- ban/regional planning, planning and spatial theories, urban sociology. Two of his recent publications are: Hamedinger, A. et al. (Hrsg.) 2008: Strategieorientierte Planung im kooperativen Staat. Wiesbaden; Ha- medinger, A. & Wolffhardt, A. (eds.) 2010: The Europeanisation of Cit- ies. : Techne Press. Magnus Lindh is a lecturer in Political Science in Karlstad University, Sweden. He is currently involved in the research project “Fusing Re- gions Plus+”, that pays special attention on how Nordic Regions inter- act with the EU and which strategies are the most successful in ‘trying to get the best out of the EU’. Lee Miles is Professor of Political Science, Department of Political and Historical Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden, and Honorary Profes- sor of Scandinavian Studies, University College (UCL). He is also joint editor of the Europe and the Nation State book series (Rout-

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ledge), and lead co- editor of Conflict and Cooperation (SAGE). He leads the ‘Fusing Regions?’ research (based at Karlstad University), funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, EU, and Nordic develop- ment agencies. Marius Guderjan is a PhD student and associated lecturer at Manches- ter Metropolitan University. His research interests are European inte- gration theorising with a particular focus on the fusion approach and on local and regional government in Germany, the UK and Sweden. Further fields of interests include the EU’s institutional structure, Euro- peanization processes, multi-level governance and regionalisation in Europe. Jing Pan is a Doctoral Researcher of the Local Governance Research Unit at the Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University, . Her research interests focus on local government, multi-level governance, international relations and European Legal Studies. Nico van der Heiden is currently Senior Project Manager at the Centre for Democracy Studies at the University of Zurich. He finished his PhD on the international activities of city-regions in 2009. Previously, he has held positions as Research Assistant at the Universities of Zurich and Lucerne, and as Visiting Scholar at the INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Socie´te´ in Montre´al. He is currently carrying out research on urban and metropolitan governance, and on new forms of participation in established democracies. Antonios Karvounis is working at the Hellenic Ministry of Interior, De- centralisation and E- Government. His main responsibilities include the European Programmes and International Relationships of Local Authorities. He studied Political Science and International Studies in Athens (Panteion University) and did his PhD thesis at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK). He has written several books and stud- ies on local government, European affairs, British politics, political theory and comparative politics.

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Christian Lamour is an urban geographer and a European expert in city governance. He is a researcher at CEPS/INSTEAD in Luxembourg. His main topics are the creation of transnational public spheres in joint borderlands and the development of multi-level partnerships within transfrontier conurbations. Sonja Witte studied European Business and Administration at the Uni- versity of Applied Sciences Bremen. In 2007 she added a Master of European Studies at the University of Tu¨bingen. Since September 2007 she is working for the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) where she leads the Brussels office since September 2009. Besides her job she is writing her doctoral thesis at the University of Osnabru¨ckon the local public government in European policy making. Aside from this she is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Kehl.

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