Challenges to local government innovation: Legal and institutional impediments to the exercise of innovative economic development policy by subnational jurisdictions

European Journal of Spatial Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Grydehøj, Adam ^a  

^a Island Dynamics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Economic development policy; European Union; Good governance; Local government innovation; Multilevel governance; Shetland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906351183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16509544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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