Territorial Choice ─ The Politics of Boundaries and Borders

This book presents the experiences of eleven European countries in the field of territorial reforms. Based on case-studies that outline the basic features of the politics of territorial choice in the respective countries, the focus is on national policies, politics, and cleavages; the strategies employed and the outcomes of the reforms.

MIJKE BOEDELTJE is director of BP-E, an independent research and consultancy bureauMARCO BRUNAZZO is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, ItalyBAS DENTERS is Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Political Science and Research Methods, School for Management and Governance, University of Twente, The NetherlandsPANOS GETIMIS is Professor of Urban and Regional Policy and Planning at the Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens, GreeceNIKOS HLEPAS is Associate Professor of Regional Government and Self Government at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Capodistrian University of Athens, GreeceMICHAL ILLNER is a senior scientist in the Institute of Sociology at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, Czech Republic, and a member of its Department for Local and Regional StudiesPETER JOHN is Hallsworth Chair of Governance in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, where he is co-director of the Institute of Political Governance (IPEG)ERIC KERROUCHE is CNRS Senior Research Fellow at SPIRIT, the research centre of Bordeaux Institute of Political Science, FranceANDERS LIDSTROM is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Umea University, SwedenPOUL ERIK MOURITZEN is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, DenmarkSIV SANDBERG is a senior researcher at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Abo Akademi University, FinlandMELANIE WALTER-ROGG is Lecturer at the Department of Empirical Political Research and Policy Analysis at the University of Munich, Germany