TY - JOUR A1 - Drapalova, Eliska A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Who Governs 4.0? Varieties of Smart Cities JF - Public Management Review N2 - Research on smart cities is still at an early stage. The conjecture of this article is that smart city strategies and their impacts will inevitably vary across contexts; however, the debate still lacks an analytical toolkit that guides the exploration of such varieties (and similarities) of smart cities. Combining existing research on the governance of smart cities with theories of business–state relations from political economy, this article develops an analytical framework and typology that captures varieties (and similarities) of smart city policies and governance. We apply this framework to four illustrative cases: Prague, Barcelona, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2020.1718191 VL - 22 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Drápalová, Eliška A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Technocratic Populism and Subnational Governance JF - Government and Opposition N2 - Although scholarly interest in populism has increased as populist parties have risen across Europe, the subnational level has been largely overlooked. This article adopts an original subnational focus and explores an unlikely but increasingly prevalent political agenda: the combination of technocracy and populism. We focus on technocratic populism as a political and governance strategy at the municipal level and assess how the interaction of populism and technocracy plays out empirically in relation to administration and public policies and how the tensions and synergies between technocracy and populism are solved at the local level. The article argues that the local level is especially prone to this kind of intersection between technocratic and populist ideology. While the article is mainly an exercise in concept development, two illustrative cases at the city level, namely the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S, Five Star Movement) in Rome and the Akce nespokojených občanů (ANO, Action of Dissatisfied Citizens) in Prague are used to support the argument. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2020.16 SN - 1477-7053 SP - 1 EP - 21 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Drápalová, Eliška A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lee Ocampo, María José T1 - Digitale Nomaden. Neue Mobilität schafft neue Konflikte JF - WZB-Mitteilungen N2 - Sie sind eine neue Klasse von Migrant*innen: Die digitalen Nomaden und Nomadinnen, die von irgendwo in der Welt aus über digitale Plattformen ihre Arbeit finden und verrichten. Sie genießen verschiedene Privilegien, doch die Zunahme dieses Phänomens ruft in vielen Städten Unmut und Widerstand hervor. Neue Konzepte von Arbeit, von Mobilität und von Staatsbürgerschaft sind gefragt. Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.wzb.eu/de/publikationen/wzb-mitteilungen/nr-188-migration IS - Nr. 188: Migration SP - 31 EP - 34 PB - WZB CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Drapalova, Eliska A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Platforms´ regulatory disruptiveness and local regulatory outcomes in Europe JF - Internet Policy Review N2 - One of the manifestations of platform power is the ability of platforms to successfully ignore existing rules and disrupt established patterns of regulation, thereby challenging the pillars of the regulatory state. But while the disruptive nature of the platform economy has often been invoked, it has rarely been empirically researched. We aim to fill this gap by putting the ‘disruption’ thesis to the test. We investigated whether platform companies disrupt local regulations. The findings show that sectoral platform companies are less disruptive to local regulations than widely believed. Platforms face a variety of regulatory responses, including the enforcement of regulations and the banning of platforms that fail to respect local rules. We operationalise disruption as the implementation of new regulation, exploring where and whether regulatory disruption takes place. This article combines a comparative analysis of 99 city regulations in the transport (ride-hailing) and housing (apartment-sharing) sectors in which platform companies are active, with examples from qualitative case studies. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/platforms-regulatory-disruptiveness U6 - https://doi.org/10.14763/2024.2.1745 VL - 13 IS - 2 ER -