Chapter 1 Introduction: Trends in Financing European Local Governments, JOHN GIBSON, RICHARD BATLEY; Chapter 2 Financial Equalisation Between Local and Regional Authorities in European Countries, PHILIP BLAIR; Chapter 3 The French Decentralisation Ten Years On: Local Government Finances, JACQUES LE CACHEUX, LAURE TOURJANSKY; Chapter 4 Local Government Finance in Germany, ROBERT BENNETT, GÜNTER KREBS; Chapter 5 British Local Government Finance under the Conservatives, JOHN GIBSON; Chapter 6 Financing Communal Government in Italy, ANGELA FRASCHINI; Chapter 7 Financial Relations between Central and Local Government in The Netherlands: Why Are They Different?, J. W. VAN DER DUSSEN; Chapter 8 Municipal Public Finance in the Nordic Countries, LASSE OULASVIRTA; Chapter 9 The Finance of Spanish Local Governments and its Recent Reform, ANGELS SANTIGOSA;