Urban leadership and community involvement: Ingredients for good governance?

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 256-279

  Haus, Michael ^a   Klausen, Jan Erling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

community involvement; governance; urban leadership; urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LEADERSHIP; POLICY MAKING; URBAN POLITICS;

EID: 79952097164     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087410388867     Document Type: Article

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