for public institutions to exert authority and to build legitimacy in increasingly
changing contexts and power based multilevel arrangements? What happens once
new institutional arrangements have been set up? LongitudinalWeld research and
in-depth surveys may provide fruitful answers. Do best models of territorial
organization and organizing really exist, and if so, do they matter? Performance
of public institutions still remains a subject to be studied and debated from a
political perspective.
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