Local Government at the Millenium

ISBN-13: 9783810031914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 212 str.

Janice Caulfield; Helge O. Larsen

Opis

This volume with contributions by internationally renowned authors provides a comparative survey of problems in local politics and administration in Europe, Australasia and North-America.

Spis treści

Der Gerry Stoker, New Labour and Local Governance in Britain - Neil Marshall and Kevin Sproats, Managing Democracy? Assessing Some of the Outcomes of Australian Local Government Reform - Hellmut Wollmann, Local Government Reforms in Germany: A Trajectory of Change and Persistence - Jean Drage, New Zealand's Local Government: What of the Future? - Helge O. Larsen, Directly Elected Mayors: Democratic Renewal or Constitutional Confusion? - Rosemary Kiss, Democracy or Community? Australian Local Government Electoral Reform - Janice Caulfield, Local Government Finance in OECD Countries - Akira Nakamura, A Paradigm Shift in Japan's Intergovernmental Relations: Reform of Government and Decentralization of Central Power - Andrew Sancton, Local Government in North America: Localism and Community Governance - Harald Baldersheim, Subsidiarity at Work: Modes of Multi-Level Governance in European Countries

O autorze

Janice Caulfield is a Research Fellow at the University of Glamorgan in the United Kingdom, previously in the School of Social Science and Policy at the University of New South Wales. Helge O. Larsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at Tromso University, Norway.