Strategic Planning in Local Governments in Europe: 'Where Do We Go Now'?

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger inquiry aiming to investigate the current results published in the scientifi c literature with respect to strategy development in local governments. The geographical area of interest consists of European Union (EU). The preliminary results of a systematic literature review are reported below. These results suggest that the efforts to analyze the strategy development in local governments are primarily associated to the urban planning fi eld and to a lower extent to public administration journals.

Keywords

• cee, strategic planning, new public management, neo-weberian state, new public governance.