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Linda Stihl

Linda Stihl

Postdoctoral fellow

Linda Stihl

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

Author

  • Markus Grillitsch
  • Linda Stihl
  • Brita Hermelin

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History
  • Department of Human Geography
  • CIRCLE

Publishing year

2024-08-09

Language

English

Publication/Series

Papers in Innovation Studies

Volume

2024

Issue

10

Document type

Working paper

Publisher

CIRCLE, Lund University

Topic

  • Economic Geography

Keywords

  • Change agency
  • Regional development
  • municipalities
  • place-based policy
  • Subsidiarity

Status

Published

Project

  • Regional Growth against all odds