Abstract
ABSTRACTThe growing complexity of contemporary local public governance is a clear challenge to the success of public policies. The policy domains of culture, broadly, and heritage preservation, specifically, in Portugal are good examples of that complexity, since municipalities are their biggest public funders and promoters, although experiencing several institutional capacity difficulties. These national realities are, nevertheless, largely under analysed in the literature. This paper thus aims to analyse the critical factors for the implementation of the management programmes of three Portuguese World Heritage historic centres: Évora, Porto and Guimarães. Through the analysis of programme documentation and interviews launched on local managers, it was possible to identify that the most decisive factors were issues of local political support, funding, and management structure.
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