Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe

ISBN-13: 9783319956411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 359 str.

Andreas Ladner; Harald Baldersheim; Nikos Hlepas

Opis

This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are.

Spis treści

Part I: Assessing and Measuring Local Autonomy

Chapter 1: What is local autonomy?

Chapter 2: Measuring local autonomy

Part II: Towards the Local Autonomy Index

Chapter 3: Legal foundations

Chapter 4: Functional responsibilities

Chapter 5: Financial control

Chapter 6: Organisational choice

Chapter 7: Administrative supervision

Chapter 8: Vertical access

Chapter 9: The Local Autonomy Index (LAI)

Part III: The Local Autonomy Index as tool for comparative analysis

Chapter 10: A new typology of local government? Beyond North-South and East-West

Chapter 11: Who governs? Patterns of responsiveness and accountability

Chapter 12: Roadmap to local autonomy? Drivers of variation

Chapter 13: Blessings of local autonomy? Does it matter? For what? How?

Chapter 14: Conclusions: Local Autonomy – patterns, dynamics and ambiguities

O autorze

Andreas Ladner is Professor of Political Institutions and Public Administration at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Harald Baldersheim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. 

Nikos Hlepas is Associate Professor for Local Self-Government and Regional Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. 

Nicolas Keuffer is Research Assistant at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Carmen Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain. 

Kristof Steyvers is Professor of Political science, Ghent University, Belgium. 

Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor in the Department of Development and Local Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland.    

Blurb

This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are. It fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive study of the different components of local autonomy across a large number of countries, over time. It offers a theoretically saturated concept to measure local autonomy and applies it to 39 countries, including all 28 EU member states together with Albania, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland Turkey and Ukraine, over a period of 25 years (1990-2014).

Andreas Ladner is Professor of Political Institutions and Public Administration at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Harald Baldersheim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. 

Nikos Hlepas is Associate Professor for Local Self-Government and Regional Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. 

Nicolas Keuffer is Research Assistant at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 

Carmen Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain. 

Kristof Steyvers is Professor of Political science, Ghent University, Belgium. 

Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor in the Department of Development and Local Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland.