Reforming Local Government in Europe: Closing the Gap between Democracy and Efficiency

✍ Scribed by Angelika Vetter, Norbert Kersting (auth.), Dr. habil. Norbert Kersting, Dr. Angelika Vetter (eds.)

Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 343
Series: Urban and Research International 4
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Nearly all Western and Central European local government systems have been reformed since the 1990's. Taking into account variations in historical and national context, the book looks for different ways of local government reform, their emphases and their divergent trajectories.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-10
Democracy versus efficiency? Comparing local government reforms across Europe....Pages 11-28
Local government reforms in the Nordic countries. Bringing politics back in?....Pages 29-38
Local government reform in Great Britain....Pages 39-63
A new role for municipal councils in Dutch local democracy?....Pages 65-84
German local government under the double impact of democratic and administrative reforms....Pages 85-112
Cities and municipalities in the Austrian political system since the 1990s. New developments between “efficiency” and “democracy”....Pages 113-135
Local government reform in Switzerland. More for than by — but what about of ?....Pages 137-155
The French Republic, one yet divisible?....Pages 157-182
Subsidiarity: fall or premise of “local government reforms”. The Italian case....Pages 183-196
Twenty-five years of democratic local government in Spain....Pages 197-220
Local government reform in Greece....Pages 221-239
Local government reforms and the capacity for local governance in Hungary....Pages 241-260
Thirteen years of reforming sub-national government in the Czech Republic....Pages 261-281
Reforming local government in Poland. Top-down and bottom-up processes....Pages 283-307
Local government reform in the Baltic countries....Pages 309-332
Reforming local government. Heading for efficiency and democracy....Pages 333-349

✦ Subjects

Political Science, general; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Regional and Cultural Studies

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