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Multilevel Democracy - How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State (Hardcover)
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Multilevel Democracy - How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State (Hardcover)
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This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of
national traditions of local democracy across the developed world,
as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive
local institutions that integrate national and local governance
make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world,
early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of
elites. In Anglo-American and Swiss democracies, state formation
imposed enduring tensions with local civic governance. In contrast,
inclusive, integrative local institutions in Northern Europe
enabled close links with central government around common local and
national agendas, producing better governance and fuller democracy
to the present day. Through comparative analysis, the authors
demonstrate how institutions for local governance and the
participation of civil society differ widely among developed
democracies, and how local democracy relates to national democracy.
The resulting insights fundamentally recast our understanding of
how to build and maintain more effective democracies.
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