Municipalities’ role in regional development: Navigating subsidiarity, place-based approaches, and geographical variation

Markus Grillitsch, Linda Stihl () and Brita Hermelin ()
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Linda Stihl: CIRCLE, Lund University, Postal: CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research, Lund University, PO Box 117, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
Brita Hermelin: Linköping University, Postal: Sweden

No 2024/10, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: Even though place is associated with the local, place-based policy approaches target the regional level of government. Addressing this conundrum, 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 strategies of municipalities in place-based approaches. The results explain the uneven capabilities and structural constraints of municipalities impacting the viability of the subsidiarity principle bringing policy design and implementation closer to citizens.

Keywords: Change agency; regional development; municipalities; place-based policy; subsidiarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2024-08-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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