The Comparative Study of Local Government and Politics: Overview and Synthesis

ISBN-13: 9783866490345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 135 str.

Prof. em. Dr. Harald Baldersheim;Prof. Dr. Hellmut Wollmann

Opis

The book provides a review of the state of the art as regards local government studies, with an emphasis on contributions by political scientists. Particular attention is paid to the development of the research agenda in the field. At the end, a future research agenda is outlined. The first chapter of the book outlines the development of the research agenda of the field of local government studies; while community power studies were central topics from the 1930s and into the 1950s and 60s, policy-oriented research became increasingly popular in the 1970s. Institutional issues have always been important concerns to the scholars in this field. The next chapter raises a question of increasing relevance in a globalizing world: Will local government have any meaningful role in such a world? Various answers, mostly in the affirmative, are suggested. Local government studies face specific methodological challenges; these are reviewed in a separate chapter; the role of local government studies

Recenzje

Der Band versammelt namhafte Autoren [...]. Er ist keine Einführung in die lokale Politikforschung, sondern ein wichtiger Beitrag zu akademischer Außendarstellung und interner Selbstverständigung der Teildisziplin.Neue Politische Literatur 3/2008

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Harald Baldersheim, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway Prof. (em.) Hellmut Wollmann, Institute of Social Science, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany