Europe is undergoing profound transformations driven by a shifting global power balance. These changes affect multi-level relations between states and local governments, as well as security and resilience concerns. In this context, a key question arises: Under these re-embedded conditions, can local governments further strengthen their contribution to the Common good – both for their citizens and for the global community?
Local governments stand at the forefront of these transitions, navigating the shift from old resilience paradigms to new.
This Specialized Workshop welcomes paper proposals from both early-career and senior scholars; PhD students as professors. Submissions may address the challenges and contributions of local governments in responding to contemporary topics such as democratic backsliding, local security agendas, climate transition, social inequality and social stress, urban planning and management, and local digitalization. Papers focusing on themes of safety, (dis)trust, (dis)cohesion, and public service provision and management are also encouraged, as other critical challenges faced by German and Nordic local governments.
We are pleased to invite you to a lunch-to-lunch workshop on these topics in Rome, which can be combined with other study group sessions of EGPA. The event brings together local government scholars from the Nordic countries and Germany, and beyond, to strengthen the research collaboration in the field of local government studies.