Local Governance in Western EuropeThis text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and explain the significant processes of change characterizing local government systems and to place these in a genuinely comparative context. Students are introduced to the traditional structures and institutions of local government and shown how these have been transforming in response to increased economic and political competition, new ideas, institutional reform and the Europeanization of public policies in Europe. At the books core is the perceived transition from local government to local governance. This key development is traced thematically across a w |
Contents
CONTENTS | 2 |
From Local Government to Local Governance | 3 |
Local Government Systems in Western Europe | 25 |
Local Government Systems in Western Europe | 27 |
Local Regimes in Western Europe | 40 |
The Europeanization of Subnational Governance | 61 |
Privatization and the New Public Management | 93 |
Institutional Formation and Regionalism | 109 |
Renewing Local Democracy | 154 |
Conclusions | 167 |
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Leadership and the Local Executive | 134 |
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administration argues autonomy become Belgium bureaucracies central government centre chapter cities citizens coalitions communes competition complex context contracting council Council of Europe countries create culture decentralization decision-making decisions democracy democratic economic development Edward Elgar effects elites emerged European integration European policy European Union example experiments factors federal finance Fordism forms of political framework France functions funds Galès Germany Goldsmith government systems government to governance ideas important influence interest groups Italy leadership lobbying localities London ment Moreover multi-level governance municipal nation-states Netherlands networks northern organizations participation partnerships pattern policy-making political institutions political parties political systems politicians Portugal private sector programmes public management public sector public-private public-private partnerships reform regime theory regimes regional authorities regional governments relationships representative democracy response role Scandinavia social Spain Stoker structures sub-national authorities sub-national government territorial tiers of government traditional Urban Western Europe Western European Whilst
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Die Zukunft der lokalen Demokratie: Modernisierungs- und Reformmodelle Norbert Kersting Limited preview - 2004 |
The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus Annika Mombauer No preview available - 2002 |