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A strategic and operational view of competitiveness and cohesion in the European context [PDF]
The persistence of spatial developmental disparities suggests that the strategic directions of any initiative targeting regional competitiveness should follow the lines of (1) maximizing its competitive impact and (2) matching the territorial specificity.
Valentin COJANU
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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper invites the readers to rethink regulatory governance by examining how trust‐based and rule‐based governance interact. To do this, it uses analytical narratives of three fictional polities: “Trustland”, “Regland”, and “Concordia”. Each polity represents a stylized model of governance: Trustland is anchored in trust‐based governance ...
David Levi‐Faur
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Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87 [PDF]
, 2003 The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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Monocentric and Polycentric Density Functions and Their Required Commutes [PDF]
, 1992 This paper examines the relationship between urban structure and commuting behavior. Analyzing the 1980 journey-to-work data for the Los Angeles region, this paper has shown that polycentric density functions fit the actual urban structure better than the conventional monocentric model.
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Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract This study examines the complexity of disaster response management and the role of local institutional leadership. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the May 2023 floods in two Emilia‐Romagna provinces in Italy, it explores how local leadership influences the outcomes of crisis management within a shared institutional and hazard context ...
Giliberto Capano, Alexandra D′Angelo
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Disentangling agglomeration and network externalities : a conceptual typology [PDF]
, 2016 Agglomeration and network externalities are fuzzy concepts. When different meanings are (un)intentionally juxtaposed in analyses of the agglomeration/network externalities-menagerie, researchers may reach inaccurate conclusions about how they interlock ...
Derudder, Ben +2 more
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Global Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 semi‐structured interviews and ...
Muhammed Yasir Bodur +1 more
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Polycentric metropolitan areas in Europe towards a unified proposal of delimitation [PDF]
Metropolitan areas concentrate the main share of population, production and consumption in OECD countries. They are likely to be one of the most important units for economic, social and environmental analysis as well as for the development of policy ...
Francesc Hernández +3 more
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Transforming Innovation Systems: On Missions, Challenges, and Dedication
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, Volume 43, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Amid escalating global crises and growing demands for sustainability transitions, innovation systems (IS) research has undergone a “normative turn,” shifting the focus of research toward addressing complex societal challenges. This paper compares three approaches that have emerged in response to this shift: Dedicated Innovation Systems (DIS ...
Sabine Philipps +10 more
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Evaluating the application of the European spatial development perspective in the United Kingdom: Methodological considerations and emerging trends [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to consider how the emerging European spatial development policy agenda is influencing the performance of regional strategic planning in the United Kingdom.
Sykes, Olivier John
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