Comparing Local Governance: Trends and Developments

ISBN-13: 9780333995556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 293 str.

Bas Denters

Opis

This book provides a broad-ranging assessment of continuities and change in the condition of local governance in the western industrialized world; leading experts from a wide range of countries demonstrate the whole spectrum of types and models of local government systems and networks. A central focus is on the impact of public management reforms, new forms of community governance and changes in central-local relations.

Spis treści

Preface.- Local Governance in the Third Millennium: A Brave New World?; B.Denters & L.E.Rose.- France: The Intermunicipal Revolution; O.Borraz & P.Le Galès.- Italy: After the Storm; L.Bobbio.- Belgium: The Changing World of Belgian Municipalities; Y.Plees.- The Netherlands: In Search of Responsiveness; B.Denters & P.J.Klok.- The Nordic Countries: Still the 'Promised Land'?; L.E.Rose & K.Ståhlberg.- Poland: A Time of Transition; P.Swianiewicz.- Germany: A New Type of Local Government; O.W.Gabriel & S.Eisenmann.- Switzerland: Reforming Small Autonomous Municipalities; A.Ladner.- The United Kingdom: An Increasingly Differentiated Polity?; D.Wilson.- New Zealand: A Quantum Leap Forward?; G.Bush.- Australia: Still a Tale of Cinderella?; C.Aulich.- The United States: Executive Centred Politics; H.V.Savitch & R.K.Vogel.- A New Intergovernmentalism?; M.Goldsmith.- Toward Community Governance?; B Denters & L.E.Rose.

O autorze

BAS DENTERS is Professor of Urban Policy and Politics, University of Twente, The Netherlands

LAWRENCE E. ROSE is Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway