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'The current fiscal and economic crisis forces local governments to find new ways to meet their functional responsibilities. This collection explores the processes of institutional and policy innovations and shows the highly differentiated variety of solutions in the European countries. It is an important contribution to the current literature and offers valuable and inspiring insights for scholars, policy makers and public administrators.' Doris Wastl-Walter, University of Berne, Switzerland'This is an important book about the significant local adjustments needed to cope with austerity. The contributors provide lucid insights through valuable case studies and new overviews of adjustments, partnerships, and citizen participation. The editors find new centralisations occurring that will challenge many conventional accounts. This book is significant and thought-provoking.'Robert Bennett, University of Cambridge, UK

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Carlos Nunes Silva, PhD, is Professor Auxiliar at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests are mainly focused on local government policies, history and theory of urban planning, urban and metropolitan governance, urban planning ethics, urban planning in Africa, research methods, e-government and urban e-planning. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of E-Planning Research' (IJEPR). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Governance. Jan BuAiek, PhD is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Human Geography a Demography at the Comenius University in Bratislava. His research focuses on various governance and development issues at the local/urban and regional levels. Currently he is the Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Governance (since 2008) and Vice-President of the Slovak Geographical Society (since 2010).

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