- Reimagining democracy from the ground up
In their newly-published open access volume, Citizen Participation in Local Governance: An Urban–Rural Perspective (Springer, 2026), Karl Kössler and Eva Schläppi bring together insights from 18 partner institutions across six continents to examine one of the most pressing questions in contemporary governance. Drawing from the Horizon 2020 “Local Government and the Changing Urban – Rural […]
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