Lipsky's seminal concept of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) focuses on their role as public servants. However, in the course of new modes of governance, private actors have gained an additional role as implementation agents. We explore the logic of private SLBs during the implementation of the...

Much public participation research is built on the assumption that participatory arrangements empower citizens and disrupt existing power structures. This article challenges that claim. Drawing on one participatory venue considered most likely to empower citizens in Basel, Switzerland, the study...

Land-use policies have long been recognized as important driving forces of urbanization, but little research has been conducted on the interrelationship of actors, policy decision processes and changes in the built environment. In this paper, we use the advocacy coalition framework to analyse...

Metropolitan inequality and governance : a framework for global comparison / Jefferey M. Sellers -- Contested metropolis : inequality and the multilevel governance of metropolitan regions in the USA / Jefferey M. Sellers, Erika R. Petroy, and Sasha Hondagneu-Messner -- Metropolitan governance...