The first meeting of the PSG took place during EGPA's Annual Conference 2010 in Toulouse.
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List of Accepted Papers
Pedro J. Camões (University of Minho, Portugal): « Political Decentralization in Western Europe and The Dynamics of Institutional Change: An empirical Analysis »
Koenraad De Ceuninck, Herwig Reynaert, Tony Valcke (Centre for Local Politics, Department of Political Science, Ghent University, Belgium): « The Relationship Between Local and RegionalL Government. The Flemish Case »
Arto Haveri, Jenni Airaksinen & Anni Jäntti (University of Tampere. Department of Regional Studies, Finland): « Governance by rescaling – The deliberated and unintended effects »
Anni Jäntti ((University of Tampere. Department of Regional Studies, Finland) & Inga Nyholm (Ministry of Finance, Finland/University of Tampere, Finland): « Reorganisation and the challenges of management in Finnish local governments »
Hiroko Kudo (Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Public Policy, Chuo University, Japan): « Public Sector Management Innovation in particular territories: an Italian case study of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Special Autonomous Region »
Lars Niklasson (Political science/IEI Linköping University, Sweden) & Pontus Tallberg (Regional development, Region Skåne, Sweden) : « Forming a regional policy in Sweden: Where will the contradictory policies lead? »
Emanuele Padovani (University of Bologna, Department of Management, Italy), Francesca Manes Rossi (University of Salerno, Department of Business Study and Research, Italy) & Rebecca Levy Orelli (University of Bologna, Department of Management, Italy): « The use of financial indicators to determine financial health of Itamian municipalities »
Esther Pano Puey (Local Government Observatory, Spain) & Lluís Medir Tejado (University of Barcelona, Spain): « Exploring Performance of Cooperation between regional and Local Government : The Case of Catalonia«
Joerg Roeber (Zeppelin University, Department of Public Management and Governance, Germany): « Towards an Ever Closer Region? Explaining Administrative Cross-Border (Non-) Cooperation from the Vantage Point of Lake Constance »
Julien van Ostaaijen (Tilburg School of Politics and Public Administration, Tilburg University, the Netherlands): « The democratic legitimacy of regional regimes: the Dutch case of Brainport Eindhoven »
Special presentation by Vincent Simoulin (Université de Toulouse/UTM/CERTOP, France): « From Challenges Without Solutions to Solutions as Challenges: Regional Policies in the Toulouse Area »