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2f/2025 Municipalities and institutional cooperation in multilevel systems: The local level of governance between identity, participation and efficiency - a comparative analysis with special focus on South Tyrol

    • Project duration: -
    • Project status: ongoing
    • Funding:
      Stiftungen (Other projects /Project)
    • Total project budget: €5,000.00
    • Institute: Institute for Comparative Federalism

    This project is a PhD project which analyses the horizontal cooperation strategies of the constituent unit “Municipality” in three subnational units of the Alpine Region: The autonomous province of Bolzano/Bozen-South Tyrol, the Canton Grisons in Switzerland and the Land Tyrol in Austria.

    In the context of recent societal changes among them aging population or youth migration as well as institutional administrative reforms, Municipalities are faced with more and more particular challenges. The aim of the research project is to show how and with which intensity Municipalities cooperate with each other in the field of service delivery.

    The innovative element of the research lies in the collection of empirical material as well as in the comparison of the neighbouring regions South Tyrol, Tyrol and Grisons.

    The PhD project is conducted in cooperation with the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and it is co-financed by the Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse.

    Publications
    Mayors between Territorial Policy and Governance Constraints: How Local Elites Evaluate Municipal Horizontal Tools

    Klotz G, Bolgherini S (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: SISP 2022| Societá Italiana di Scienza Politica, 35th annual conference | Rome : 8.9.2022 - 10.9.2022

    Mayors between Territorial Policy and Governance Constraints: How Local Elites Evaluate Municipal Horizontal Tools

    Klotz G, Bolgherini S (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: ECPR General Conference 2022 | Innsbruck | 22.8.2022 - 26.8.2022

    Assessing the climate change vulnerability of European winegrowing regions by combining exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity indicators
    Tscholl S, Candiago S, Marsoner T, Fraga H, Giupponi C, Egarter Vigl L (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: Terclim 2022 | Bordeaux | 7.8.2022 - 7.8.2022

    More information: https://terclim2022.symposium.inrae.fr/

    Assessing the climate change vulnerability of mountain winegrowing regions in Europe
    Tscholl S, Candiago S, Marsoner T, Fraga H, Giupponi C, Egarter Vigl L (2022)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: VII International Congress on Mountain and Steep Slope Viticulture | Vila Real | 5.12.2022 - 5.12.2022

    More information: https://www.cervim.org/en/presentation/international-congres ...

    Context-driven Local Autonomy. The importance of differentiated assessments in asymmetric countries
    Bolgherini S, Klotz G, Fromm UL (2021)
    CAIRN
    Journal article
    Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée

    More information: http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ripc.281.0207

    https://doi.org/10.3917/ripc.281.0207

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/19929

    The System of Local Government in Italy
    Klotz G, Kössler K (2021)
    Contribution in book
    Local Government in Italy: Responses to Urban-Rural Challenges

    More information: https://zenodo.org/record/5254705#.YfQqyPjSI2w

    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5254705

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/20406

    Differentiated Local Autonomy in Italy (2020)
    Bolgherini S, Klotz G, Lennart Fromm U (2020)
    Database

    More information: https://doi.org/10.7802/2119

    https://doi.org/10.7802/2119

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14859

    Local Autonomy in selected Alpine Regions (2020)
    Bolgherini S, Klotz G, Lennart Fromm U (2020)
    Database

    More information: https://doi.org/10.7802/2054

    https://doi.org/10.7802/2054

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/14860

    Vertical and horizontal local cooperation in Grisons, South Tyrol and Tyrol
    Klotz G (2020)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: ECPR General Conference 2020 | Virtual Conference | 24.8.2020 - 28.8.2020

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18981

    Gemeinden in Südtirol: ein Blick auf ihre vertikalen und horizontalen Kooperationsformen
    Klotz G (2019)
    Baden-Baden: Nomos
    (Jahrbuch des Föderalismus)
    Contribution in book
    Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2019: Föderalismus, Subsidiarität und Regionen in Europa

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/11671

    Principles of Local Government: the European Charter for Local Self-Government
    Klotz G (2019)
    Presentation/Speech

    Conference: International Munich Federalism Days | Munich and Kloster Banz | 11.11.2019 - 15.11.2019

    https://hdl.handle.net/10863/12484

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