Close Ties in European Local Governance Linking Local State and Society

Filipe Teles is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is a local governance specialist and member of the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy. 

Adam Gendźwiłł is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Human Geography at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests include local democracy (with particular focus on local elections) and territorial reforms in a comparative perspective. 

Cristina St ă nus is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Her research interests focus on the study of Romanian local government and politics in a comparative context and the governance of public service delivery. 

Hubert Heinelt is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research at the Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His research covers various policies in multi-level systems.