Dronkert, Nick (2026) Maintaining Long-Term Strategies in Fragmented Governance Environments: A Case Study of Municipal Governance in Leeuwarden. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Municipalities face challenges in maintaining integrated long-term strategies within fragmented governance environments. Policy areas such as housing, sustainability, and mobility require coordination across governance levels, policy domains, and societal actors. While governance fragmentation, policy integration, strategic planning, and municipal capacity are well-established themes in public administration literature, less attention has been paid to how these challenges are managed in regional municipalities outside major urban areas. This study examines how municipalities maintain integrated long-term strategies in fragmented governance environments, using Leeuwarden as an exploratory case study. The research adopts an exploratory qualitative design combining a literature review, municipal policy document analysis, and six semi-structured interviews. The study focuses on governance fragmentation, implementation challenges, multilevel governance, and municipal capacity. The findings show that long-term strategies are challenged by competing priorities, fragmented governance structures, implementation difficulties, political discontinuity, and capacity constraints. They also highlight the importance of regional cooperation and coordination capacity. Overall, fragmentation should be viewed not only as a governance challenge but also as a structural characteristic of contemporary municipal governance.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Zwan, N.A.J. van der |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2026 11:52 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2026 11:52 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/828 |
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