The Research Debate “What is the scale of territorial coherence that encourages endogenous governance?” by Kadri Kasemets and Raili Nugin has been published in Versus

2024-02-28

The Versus Research Debate by Kadri Kasemets and Raili Nugin is based on their Fennia Research Paper Everyday materialities, territorial bordering, and place-identity defined by recent administrative reform: reactions from Estonian dispersed ruralities (2022).

Since 2017 Estonian municipalities have gone through an administrative-territorial reform. The reform fought against rural shrinking and it's aim was to arrange the municipality management more effectively. Kadri Kasements and Raili Nugin argue that the reform had a big influence on governance and local communities' agency and territorial identity.

The Research Debate includes the commentaries Communities from the local government’s point of view by Andres Rõigas, and Post-reform governance structures by Veiko Sepp.