Taking Stock of Regional Governance

Asbjørn Røiseland is professor in political science at University of Nordland and professor II at Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research. His research interests include hybrid forms of governance like networks and partnerships, interactive governance and democracy and democratic legitimacy.

Hege Hofstad is senior researcher at Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research and associate professor at University of Life Sciences in Norway (PhD in political science, University of Oslo). Her research is centered round implementation and development of public health, sustainability and climate change at local and regional level with a specific focus on cross sector/cross level coordination through planning and network governance.

Eva Sørensen is professor in public administration and democracy at Roskilde University and professor II at University of Nordland. Her main research area is interactive forms of public governance with a specific focus on the role of politicians and public administrators as metagovernors of governance networks and other forms of stakeholder involvement in public governance. She has directed several externally funded large scale research projects such as ‘Towards new regions’ funded by the MOMs foundation (2006-2009) and ‘Collaborative innovation in the public sector’ (CLIPS) that was funded by the Danish Strategic Research Council (2009 - 2014).