Local Government in Europe : New Perspectives and Democratic Challenges /

Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe. Featuring an impressive range of contributors from both eastern and western Europe, the book addresses three main topics: territorial reforms, democratic empo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Teles, Filipe (Editor), Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna (Editor), Lackowska, Marta (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2021
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Municipal government > Europe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Advancing the research agenda on local territorial reforms : taking time and space seriously / António F. Tavares
  • Too big to be local : local and national elite complicity in the narrative of English council mergers / Colin Copus, Alistair Jones and Rachel Wall
  • Consequences of forced municipal mergers : evidence from Norway / Harald Baldersheim and Lawrence E. Rose
  • Local government reforms in Denmark and Norway : reform tools and outcomes / Kurt Houlberg and Jan Erling Klausen
  • One size does not fit all : growing cities and shrinking towns in the Spanish local map / Carmen Navarro and Esther Pano
  • Institutional changes and shifting roles : local government reform in Hungary, 2010-2014 / Gábor Dobos
  • Territorial reforms in Bulgaria : the cases of municipal divorces / Desislava Kalcheva
  • Participation of interest groups at local level : any space for democracy in inter-municipal cooperation? / Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė
  • Municipal size and the nationalization of local party systems : the nationalized, localized and regionalized local party systems of Denmark, Poland and Belgium / Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers
  • Co-creating the tolerant city : the role of inspirational civic leadership / Robin Hambleton with a contribution by Wirginia Aksztejn
  • Urban leadership : German and Polish mayors in comparison / Hubert Heinelt
  • Urban climate leadership in metropolitan areas : how has the political parliamentary model influenced Oslo's climate leadership? / Gro Sandkjaer Hanssen
  • Democratic functions of local budgets / Jerzy Bartkowski
  • Does urban sprawl pay off for the suburban municipal budget in Poland? / Julita Łukomska and Jarosław Neneman
  • Why tourists should pay local taxes / Marta Derek
  • Perspectives on European local government : putting local democracy first! / Marta Lackowska, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Filipe Teles.

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