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Local Self‐Governance and Weak Statehood: A Convincing Liaison?

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  • Antje Daniel

    (Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna, Austria)

  • Hans-Joachim Lauth

    (Institute for Political Science and Sociology, Julius‐Maximillians‐Universität Würzburg, Germany)

  • Eberhard Rothfuß

    (Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences, University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Abstract

This thematic issue addresses the relationship between local self-governance and the state. Self-governance is understood as the rules that emerge in the local social and spatial context. Local self-governance of individual local groups, actors, communities, and their social and institutional arrangements are considered. From this situated collective entanglement, the interactions and relations with state authorities are analysed in the various contributions embedded in local contexts of different world regions and based on empirical social science research containing mostly interdisciplinary approaches. The nine case studies of this thematic issue reflect a variety of statehoods (weak to restrained), divers “intentionalities” of local self-governance (emancipatory and democratic, socio-economically, and socio-culturally oriented, security-driven or ecological), and their state-locality entanglements range between four forms of relationships: mutually supportive, conflictual, ambivalent, and avoiding.

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  • Antje Daniel & Hans-Joachim Lauth & Eberhard Rothfuß, 2023. "Local Self‐Governance and Weak Statehood: A Convincing Liaison?," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(2), pages 272-279.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:poango:v:11:y:2023:i:2:p:272-279
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