Local Government Structure and Intergovernmental Relations: An Urban-Rural Perspective
暫譯: 地方政府結構與政府間關係：城市與鄉村的視角

Karl Kössler is Senior Researcher and Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen (Italy). He received a Ph.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 2011. Due to his background in both comparative public law and political science, Karl Kössler's research adopts a multidisciplinary perspective. His teaching includes a wide range of courses at universities, master programs and summer schools in Europe, Africa and Asia. Moreover, Karl Kössler is the author of over 50 academic publications with prestigious publishers such as Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Edward Elgar, Hart and Oxford University Press. This includes nine books, among them Comparative Federalism: Constitutional Arrangements and Case Law (coauthored with Francesco Palermo). The latter book has received acclaim from both political scientists and lawyers as "a work of reference for generations of scholars" (Prof. Balveer Arora) and as"standing out for its iconoclasm, for its illuminating and entertaining selection of illustrative examples, but most of all for a significant methodological breakthrough" (Prof. James Gardner). Karl Kössler's consultancy activities for policymakers have covered a wide range of constitutional and political reform projects with assignments ranging from several European countries to Mozambique and Papua New Guinea. In 2018, he was appointed as Alternate Member of the Council of Europe's Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government. His work has obtained third-party funding from private foundations and the European Union. Since 2019 Karl Kössler is the Scientific Coordinator of the five-year EU Horizon 2020 project "Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay (LoGov)", which brings together 18 partner institutions from around the world .

卡爾·科斯勒（Karl Kössler）是意大利博爾扎諾/博岱的歐洲比較聯邦主義研究所（Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen）的高級研究員及小組負責人。他於2011年在奧地利因斯布魯克大學獲得優等博士學位（summa cum laude）。由於他在比較公法和政治科學方面的背景，卡爾·科斯勒的研究採取多學科的視角。他的教學涵蓋了歐洲、非洲和亞洲的多種大學課程、碩士課程和暑期學校。此外，卡爾·科斯勒是超過50部學術出版物的作者，這些出版物由如Routledge、Palgrave Macmillan、Edward Elgar、Hart和牛津大學出版社等知名出版社發行。其中包括九本書籍，其中之一是《比較聯邦主義：憲法安排與案例法》（Comparative Federalism: Constitutional Arrangements and Case Law，與弗朗切斯科·巴勒莫（Francesco Palermo）共同撰寫）。該書獲得政治科學家和律師的讚譽，被評為「幾代學者的參考作品」（巴爾維爾·阿羅拉教授）以及「因其破壞性、啟發性和娛樂性的例證選擇而脫穎而出，但最重要的是其顯著的方法論突破」（詹姆斯·加德納教授）。卡爾·科斯勒為政策制定者提供的諮詢活動涵蓋了廣泛的憲法和政治改革項目，任務範圍從幾個歐洲國家到莫三比克和巴布亞新幾內亞。2018年，他被任命為歐洲理事會地方自治憲章獨立專家小組的替代成員。他的工作獲得了來自私人基金會和歐盟的第三方資助。自2019年以來，卡爾·科斯勒擔任五年期歐盟地平線2020項目「地方政府與變化中的城市-鄉村互動（LoGov）」的科學協調員，該項目匯集了來自世界各地的18個合作機構。