Local Government in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives and Democratic Challenges
Redaktion: Lackowska, Marta; Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe. Featuring an impressive range of contributors from both eastern and western Europe, the book addresses three main topics: territorial reforms, democratic empowerment of citizens and the role of local leadership, as well as new trends in local finances. Acknowledging their inherent diversity, the book examines the ways that local governments have responded to shared challenges, such as climate change, increasing populism and democratic deficit in order to identify both the variety and communalities between the country-specific features. In doing so, it provides a rich picture of the latest trends in local government, as well as pointing the way for future developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529217193
• Artikelnr.: 70066322

Autorenporträt

Marta Lackowska is Professor in the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: The size of municipal reforms when size matters 1. Advancing the
research agenda on local territorial reforms: taking time and space
seriously - António F. Tavares 2. Too big to be local: local and national
elite complicity in the narrative of English council mergers - Colin Copus,
Alistair Jones, Rachel Wall 3. Consequences of forced municipal mergers:
evidence from Norway - Harald Baldersheim, Lawrance E. Rose 4. Local
government reforms in Denmark and Norway: reform tools and outcomes - Kurt
Houlberg, Jan Erling Klausen 5. One size does not fit all: growing cities
and shrinking towns in the Spanish local map - Carmen Navarro, Esther Pano
6. Institutional changes and shifting roles: local government reform in
Hungary, 2010-2014 - Gábor Dobos 7. Territorial reforms in Bulgaria: the
cases of municipal divorces - Desislava Kalcheva 8. Participation of
Interest Groups on Local Level: Any Space for Democracy in Inter-municipal
Cooperation? - Jurga Bucaite-Vilke Section II: local democracy and
Leadership 9. Municipal size and the nationalization of local party
systems: the nationalized, localized and regionalized local party systems
of Denmark, Poland and Belgium - Adam Gendzwill, Ulrik Kjaer, Kristof
Steyvers 10. Co-creating the tolerant city: the role of inspirational civic
leadership - Robin Hambleton with Wirginia Aksztejn 11. Urban leadership:
German and Polish mayors in comparison - Hubert Heinelt 12. Urban climate
leadership in metropolitan areas: How has the political parliamentary model
influenced Oslo's climate leadership? - Gro Sandkjær Hanssen 13. The
effects of European Union funding in the light of municipal surveys -
Grzegorz Gorzelak, Ewelina Przekop-Wiszniewska Section III: Keeping the
pace with a balanced balance sheet 14. Democratic functions of local
budgets - Jerzy Bartkowski 15. Does urban sprawl pay off for the suburban
municipal budget in Poland? - Julita Lukomska, Jaroslaw Neneman 16. Should
tourists pay local taxes and why yes? - Marta Derek Conclusions 17.
Perspectives on European local government: putting local democracy first! -
Marta Lackowska, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, Filipe Teles