Reforming Local Government in Europe [electronic resource] : Closing the Gap between Democracy and Efficiency / edited by Norbert Kersting, Angelika Vetter.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783663112587
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/13066
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2003.
Yayın Bilgisi
Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften : Imprint: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2003.
Fiziksel Niteleme
349 p. online resource.
Dizi
Urban and Regional Research International, 2627-4213 ; 4
İçindekiler Notu
Democracy versus efficiency? Comparing local government reforms across Europe -- Local government reforms in the Nordic countries. Bringing politics back in? -- Local government reform in Great Britain -- A new role for municipal councils in Dutch local democracy? -- German local government under the double impact of democratic and administrative reforms -- Cities and municipalities in the Austrian political system since the 1990s. New developments between “efficiency” and “democracy” -- Local government reform in Switzerland. More for than by — but what about of? -- The French Republic, one yet divisible? -- Subsidiarity: fall or premise of “local government reforms”. The Italian case -- Twenty-five years of democratic local government in Spain -- Local government reform in Greece -- Local government reforms and the capacity for local governance in Hungary -- Thirteen years of reforming sub-national government in the Czech Republic -- Reforming local government in Poland. Top-down and bottom-up processes -- Local government reform in the Baltic countries -- Reforming local government. Heading for efficiency and democracy.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Political science.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Political Science.
Organization and Leadership.
Regional Cultural Studies.