Already in the 1980s the processes of economic globalization and European integration have gained new momentum and brought along a constantly decreasing significance of national politics. Simultaneously – or considered a reaction to it – subnational entities, particularly on the local level, strengthened their historically established identities and started pushing for opportunities of participation in the political process.
As a result, social sciences internationally have increased their output on questions of local/regional politics. In the discipline of political science however, the extent of research in this field is limited. Obviously, a backlog exists regarding empirical-analytic research in the field of subnational politics.
The workshop is organized as follows:
Part I:
morning session – presentations and discussions of accepted paper- and research projects
Part II:
afternoon session – world café debate aimed at intensively discussing contents and methods of studies of politics on the local/regional level.
We are encouraging submissions of paper or research projects that are focusing on politics at the local level. Please find full information in the Call for Contributions.