Municipalities: Actors of Change in Regional Development?
Grillitsch, Markus LU
; Stihl, Linda
LU
and Hermelin, Brita
(2026)
In Geoforum
173.
- Abstract
- Even though place is associated with the local, place-based policy approaches typically target the regional level of government. Addressing this spatial mismatch, this paper focuses on the local level studying municipalities’ regional development work in different types of regions in three Nordic countries. Through a comparative study across regional and national contexts, the paper identifies the need to clarify the mandates of municipalities in place-based approaches. The results unveil the uneven capabilities, and national and regional structural constraints of municipalities which impacts their place-based regional development work.
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- author
- Grillitsch, Markus
LU
; Stihl, Linda
LU
and Hermelin, Brita
- organization
- publishing date
- 2026-07
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Change agency, Regional development, Municipalities, Place-based policy, Decentralization
- in
- Geoforum
- volume
- 173
- article number
- 104660
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:105036205312
- ISSN
- 1872-9398
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104660
- project
- Regional Growth against all odds
- Change agency in (old) industrial regions - Shaping new futures
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 2d3dd028-5079-4878-8946-9da53f76384a
- date added to LUP
- 2026-04-20 16:15:08
- date last changed
- 2026-04-28 04:00:50
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