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This article examines how the international competition to attract and retain foreign direct investment shapes the governance of business and employment systems. Through an examination of global production networks and the ...

Local leadership and Local-Self Government: Avoiding the Abyss

Copus, Colin; Steyvers, Kristof (Article)

A series of trends have emerged across Europe which have stimulated change in local government, local democracy and local leadership particularly where local government and local leaders have had to respond to crisis, ...

Local Leadership in the UK: Rebels Leading London

Stafford, Max (Conference)

Local party groups.

Copus, Colin (Article)

Local Political Leaders

Copus, Colin; Leach, Steve (Book chapter)

The way local political leaders construct a vision for their localities, develop support and followers and effect action are shaped by factors both within and beyond the control of the leader. The constitutional setting ...

Local Political Leadership

Leach, Steve; Wilson, David J. (Book)

Local political leadership in England and Wales

Leach, Steve; Hartley, J.; Lowndes, Vivien; Wilson, David J.; Downe, J. (Book)

Local political participation: the impact of rules-in-use

Lowndes, Vivien; Pratchett, Lawrence; Stoker, Gerry (Article)

Local representative democracy and protest politics: the case of the Five-star Movement

Vampa, Davide (Article)

In recent years, protest politics has become a relevant phenomenon in various European countries. Italy has witnessed the rise of the Five-star Movement (M5S), an anti-establishment party which, at the 2013 general election, ...

Local self-government and titular regime control in Russia’s republics, 1991-1999.

Lankina, Tomila V. (Article)

Localism

Davies, Jonathan S. (Book chapter)

The locality effect: local government and citizen participation

Lowndes, Vivien; Pratchett, Lawrence; Stoker, Gerry (Working Paper)