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This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of
territorial change on the municipal level across all European
countries. Taking a thematic and comparative perspective, the book
builds on extensive quantitative data and a large survey of
academic experts in 33 European countries. Territorial organisation
of the municipal level in Europe is strongly diversified and yet
far from stable. Politically speaking, territorial reforms tend to
be risky and difficult, as such changes affect vital interests and
identities. Despite such difficulties, the last two decades have
witnessed considerable changes in territorial divisions at the
municipal level across a range of European countries. In this book,
the authors describe and analyse these changes comprehensively,
making a vital contribution to understanding the reasons and
dynamics of territorial reform processes. This book will be of key
interest to scholars, students and practitioners in local or
sub-national government, institutional design and more broadly to
political science, public administration/policy, human geography,
sociology and economics.
Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected
directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government
authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates
around this model of leadership, and how in practice political
leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from
Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices,
and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and
countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and
informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with
other actors in governance - both inside municipalities and in
broader governance networks - and the advantages and disadvantages
of the mayoral model. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches
are used to build a picture of views of and on directly elected
mayors in different contexts from across the globe. This book will
be a valuable resource for those studying or researching public
policy, public management, urban studies, politics, law, and
planning.
This book explores sub-municipal units' (SMU) role in decision
making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation
and, in rural areas, service delivery. Focusing on fourteen
European countries, the book examines the impact of political
cultures, administrative traditions and local government systems on
the functioning of the SMUs. An under-explored topic in the
literature, this book provides a comprehensive, comparative
European, thematically broad, descriptive book on sub-municipal
governance.
This book explores sub-municipal units' (SMU) role in decision
making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation
and, in rural areas, service delivery. Focusing on fourteen
European countries, the book examines the impact of political
cultures, administrative traditions and local government systems on
the functioning of the SMUs. An under-explored topic in the
literature, this book provides a comprehensive, comparative
European, thematically broad, descriptive book on sub-municipal
governance.
This book sheds light on the central complexities of municipal
cooperation and examines the dynamics, experiences and drivers of
inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in Europe. Particular attention
is given to the features of governance arrangements and
institutions created to generate and maintain collaborative
settings between different local governments in a particular
territory. The thematically grouped case studies presented here
address the dearth of comprehensive and comparative analyses in
recent scholarship. The authors provide fresh insights into the
rise of inter-municipal cooperation and its evolution during a
period of financial crisis and European Union enlargement. This
includes critical examinations of the impact of austerity policies,
the behavior and perceptions of key actors; and under-explored new
member states. Crucially, this work goes beyond the comparison of
institutional forms of IMC to address why the phenomenon so
widespread and questions whether it is successful, manageable and
democratic. This work which presents the most recent and innovative
research on inter-local collaborative arrangements will appeal to
practitioners as well as scholars of local government, public
economy, public administration and policy.
Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected
directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government
authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates
around this model of leadership, and how in practice political
leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from
Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices,
and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and
countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and
informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with
other actors in governance - both inside municipalities and in
broader governance networks - and the advantages and disadvantages
of the mayoral model. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches
are used to build a picture of views of and on directly elected
mayors in different contexts from across the globe. This book will
be a valuable resource for those studying or researching public
policy, public management, urban studies, politics, law, and
planning.
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).
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).
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