The project aims at five interrelated objectives:
- Assessing the activities of city networks in global norm dynamics systematically and with reference to different policy fields
- Explaining these activities through network structures of city networks
- Advancing capabilities to account for the prerequisites of agency through a comparative network analysis using different methods of data gathering and analysis
- Compiling a data base on activities of city networks that can also be used for further research on the subject
- Answering the relevant question under which conditions local actors contribute to global norms.