The book sheds light on the mechanisms that provide the institutionalization of interaction between the international business community and intergovernmental organizations, as well as defines the criteria of effectiveness of the cooperation in question. The monograph consists of three main sections starting from considering the different types of relationship between business and government in a number of international organizations and club-type institutions and going on to the detailed analysis of the practice of cooper tion between G-20 and its leading outreach group Business 20.
This book is designed for practitioners, teachers and students in the fields of political science, economics, management, and international relations.

The monograph has been written on the basis of the empirical research on governance in five Russian towns conducted in 2011–2015. The book studies the key aspects of relations of power in local communities, including configuration and hierarchy of the main actors in urban communities, the role of regional actors in the space of local politics, the relationship between representative and executive structures of municipal government, interactions and coalitions between local political actors, and urban regimes in local communities. The research topic and structure follow the logic of urban regime analysis, which became the most popular way of studying governance in local communities. The main bulk of information was collected by the means of in-depth interviews with influential urban and regional actors directly involved in urban politics.

The book is designed for political and social scientists as well as for those interested in the issues of governance and urban politics.