Im Zuge des vielschichtigen und globalen Prozesses der zunehmenden Digitalisierung verknüpfen sich wachsende Hoffnungen im Feld der Stadt- und Regionalpolitik mit regionalen Online-Plattformen. Mit ihnen ist das Versprechen verbunden, das soziale Leben zu bereichern, den Zugang zu...

Auf dem Weg zur treibhausgasneutralen Wärmeversorgung des Gebäudebestands bestehen vielfältige Planungsbedarfe auf kommunaler Ebene. Strategien zur Reduzierung des Endenergiebedarfs der Gebäude und zur Dekarbonisierung der Wärmeversorgung durch Einbindung erneuerbarer Energien und...

Die Handlungsempfehlungen richten sich an kommunale, politische Entscheidungsträger*innen und an Mitarbeitende von Stadtverwaltungen, die für die Koordination der Klimapolitik (Klimaschutz und/oder Klimaanpassung) innerhalb ihrer Stadt verantwortlich sind.

Institutional weaknesses limit the capacity of local governments to support efficient urbanization in developing countries. They also lead to the emergence of large developers with the clout to build entire cities. This paper analyzes the urbanization process when local governments are weak and...

Smart Cities is a widely discussed topic in the social sciences. At first, awareness of Smart Cities in society was based mainly on the fact that these are cities that use modern information and communication technology (ICT) to ensure the provision of public services to their citizens. However,...

Institutional weaknesses limit the capacity of local governments to support efficient urbanization in developing countries. They also lead to the emergence of large developers with the clout to build entire cities. This paper analyzes the urbanization process when local governments are weak and...

This paper explores which variables are more significant in municipal executive recommendation by citizens. We estimated the influence of public dimensions, such as municipe loyalty, municipe satisfaction, and municipe perceived value in municipal executive recommendation by citizens. Then, we...

We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the "Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show...

Quite apart from the diversity of situations in small and medium-sized towns, stabilising their town centres is a major challenge. In both countries, town centres have been weakened by commercial changes, a decline in the supply of services and transformations in lifestyles. They are...

This paper studies the impact of urban density, city government efficiency, and medical resources on COVID-19 infection and death outcomes in China. We adopt a simultaneous spatial dynamic panel data model to account for (i) the simultaneity of infection and death outcomes, (ii) the spatial...

Von ihrer Selbstdarstellung her hat die Stadt Hamburg einen hohen Anspruch in Sachen Nachhaltigkeit. 2011 war Hamburg Umwelthauptstadt Europas, 2015 wurde der erste Klimaplan verabschiedet, 2017 die Nachhaltigkeitsziele der Vereinten Nationen als handlungsleitend übernommen. Befindet sich...

In 2020, Berlin introduced a rigorous rent-control policy responding to soaring rents by setting a cap on rental prices: the Mietendeckel (rent freeze). The policy was revoked one year later by the German Constitutional Court. Although successful in reducing rents during its duration, the...

We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors' expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...

Luisa Dörr prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in February 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of three distinct empirical essays...

This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. In 1998, one third of all leadership positions of Village Councils in West Bengal were randomly selected to be reserved for a woman: in these councils only women could be...

An address to the 2009 Local Government New Zealand Conference. The address reviews the nature of the alcohol industry as of 2009. It provides an overview of statistics related to New Zealanders’ drinking habits, including the relationships between alcohol, crime, antisocial behaviour and...

Calls for reforming the civil rights enforcement regime often focus on individual government officers. Recent years have brought demands to abolish qualified immunity—a defense that protects individual officers from liability so long as they did not violate clearly established law—and to end...

Does homeownership result in a greater local political participation in urban neighborhoods? Contemporary urban theorists argue that homeownership reinforces social and political bonds. Much of this discussion is rooted in the works of Marx and Engels, suggesting that homeownership leads to...

An address to the 2002 CLAIR Forum, delivered on 6 December 2002. The address provides a brief history of local government in New Zealand, as well as an overview of its functions, powers and accountability mechanisms. It also examines the Local Government Bill as it then stood, arguing that it...

Executive Order No. 27 Series of 2017 mandated all government agencies and instrumentalities, including all local government units (LGUs), to implement the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) and Public Investment Program (PIP) for the period 2017-2022. This triggered the PDP localization efforts...

Kommunale Entwicklungspolitik (KEpol) gewinnt in Deutschland an Bedeutung: Städte, Gemeinden und Landkreise engagieren sich zunehmend und leisten durch KEpol einen zentralen Beitrag zur transnationalen Nachhaltigkeitspolitik. Die vorliegende von der Servicestelle Kommunen in der Einen Welt...

German municipalities are getting increasingly involved in development policy work in Germany and abroad, with the nature of that involvement becoming ever more diverse. However, very little is known about the background or the type of these activities. Against this backdrop, the German...

Zunehmend und auf vielfältige Art und Weise zeigen deutsche Kommunen im In- und Ausland entwicklungspolitisches Engagement. Über die Hintergründe und Ausgestaltung ihres Engagements aber ist sehr wenig bekannt. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat das Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)...

The right to the city concept is widely debated in academic discourse yet ambiguously executed in public discourse. In much of the discussion, the right to the city is advocated as a right that humans should claim - i.e., participating in urban space living. Nonetheless, constraints and limits...

Smart city development is recognized as a potential solution to urbanization issues, but a disconnect comes along with the vagueness in smart city elements and pathways. The use of the term smart city by some local government units in the Philippines evokes a utopia – a local sphere with...