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Just published is our new edited volume on local governance and public wellbeing. It is one result of a cooperation and joint workshop of scientists and practitioners in local governance from Tübingen and Petrozavodsk.

Well-being is a core concept for measuring the satisfaction of citizens with and in their social, political and economic situations. In particular, it is local conditions that are decisive for such an evaluation—and thus also for local welfare production. In addition to municipalities as state authorities, initiatives, non-commercial organisations, associations and federations are also decisive as important welfare producers. From a comparative perspective, the contributions in this volume shed light on various aspects and dimensions of local welfare production and their effects on citizens’ satisfaction. They examine examples from Russia and Germany, in particular the two cities Petrozavodsk and Tübingen as well as the Republic of Karelia and Baden-Württemberg: the theoretical foundations and social challenges, their attitudes and populations, participatory projects and measures of welfare production.

• Frankenberger, Rolf and Elena Chernenkova (2020) (Eds.): Local Governance and Public Wellbeing. Comparing Russian and German Examples (Schriftenreihe des Europäischen Zentrums für Föderalismus-Forschung Tübingen (EZFF), Bd. 51). Nomos: Baden-Baden.  ISBN 978-3-8487-6532-4

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction  (Rolf Frankenberger and Elena Chernenkova)

PART 1: WELLBEING, SOCIAL INNOVATION AND PARTICIPATION

• Innovative Societies and Wellbeing  (Daniel Buhr)
• Social Innovation and Public Participation (Yuliya A. Petrovskaya)
• Leading for Wellbeing with Public Dialogues (Christopher Gohl)
• Online Citizen Participation: Opportunities and Constraints (Anni Schlumberger and Elisa Söll)

PART 2: CHALLENGES FOR WELLBEING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Migration, Social Policy, and Power in a Historical Perspective (Martin Seeleib-Kaiser)
• The Role of the Middle Class in the Development of Creative Urban Space (Denis I. Sachuk)
• Innovative Potential of Youth as a Resource of Social and Economic Development (on the Example of the Republic of Karelia) (Kirill Fitisov)
• Vocational Guidance Lesson as an Innovative Tool for Youth Attraction to the Russian Arctic and the Far East including the Example of the Republic of Karelia (Anna Simakova, Maria Pitukhina and Irina Stepus)
• The Features of Territorial Image Formation (by the Example of the 118 Republic of Karelia) Alisa Kruglova

PART 3: WELLBEING AND PUBLIC OPINION

• The Urban Environment through the Eyes of Residents of Petrozavodsk (Irina Miljukova and Polina Kopteva)
• To Participate or to Oppose: Political Lifeworlds between Affirmative and Aversive Critique of Representative Democracy (Rolf Frankenberger and Daniel Buhr)
• Populist Political Communication: A Comparison of Party Officials and Voters of the Alternative für Deutschland (Isabel Sinner)

PART 4: CIVIL SOCIETY, GOVERNANCE AND CREATION OF WELLBEING

• NGOs Social Projects in the Development of the Urban Social Space (Elena Chernenkova)
• New Approaches to Cooperation between NGOs and Local Government Bodies for Civil Society Development (Ksenia Chumak)
• Local Initiatives: Awakening of Rural Communities (Anatoly Tsygankov)
• Wellbeing and Trade Unions: A Review at Local Level (Stewart Gold and Carmen Thamm)

PART 5: SISTER CITY RELATIONS AND WELLBEING

• Public Participation in Sister-Cities Relations: The Case of Petrozavodsk (Natalya Lavrushina and Ekaterina Shlapeko)
• Sister-City Connections as a Tool for the Development of Social Creativity (on the Example of Petrozavodsk) (Ekaterina Shestakova)

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