Comparing local governance : trends and developments / edited by S. A. H. Denters and Lawrence E. Rose

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TextSeries: Government beyond the centrePublication details: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Description: xiv, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780333995556

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320.8 COM

Contents:

Local governance in the third millennium : a brave new world? / Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose France : the intermunicipal revolution / Olivier Borraz and Patrick Le Galès Italy : after the storm / Luigi Bobbio Belgium : the changing world of Belgian municipalities / Yves Plees The Netherlands : in search of responsiveness / Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok The Nordic countries : still the 'promised land'? / Lawrence E. Rose and Krister Ståhlberg Poland : a time of transition / Paweł Swianiewicz Germany : a new type of local government? / Oscar W. Gabriel and Susanne Eisenmann Switzerland : reforming small autonomous municipalities / Andreas Ladner The United Kingdom : an increasingly differentiated polity? / David Wilson New Zealand : a quantum leap forward? / Graham W.A. Bush Australia : still a tale of Cinderella? / Chris Aulich The United States : executive-centred politics / Hank V. Savitch and Ronald K. Vogel A new intergovernmentalism? / Mike Goldsmith Towards local governance? / Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose

Summary: This is a broad-ranging assessment of continuities and change in local governance in the western industrialised world providing in-depth assessments by leading experts of a wide range of countries exemplifying between them the whole spectrum of types and models of local government systems and networks

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Includes index.

Local governance in the third millennium : a brave new world? / Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose
France : the intermunicipal revolution / Olivier Borraz and Patrick Le Galès
Italy : after the storm / Luigi Bobbio
Belgium : the changing world of Belgian municipalities / Yves Plees
The Netherlands : in search of responsiveness / Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok
The Nordic countries : still the 'promised land'? / Lawrence E. Rose and Krister Ståhlberg
Poland : a time of transition / Paweł Swianiewicz
Germany : a new type of local government? / Oscar W. Gabriel and Susanne Eisenmann
Switzerland : reforming small autonomous municipalities / Andreas Ladner
The United Kingdom : an increasingly differentiated polity? / David Wilson
New Zealand : a quantum leap forward? / Graham W.A. Bush
Australia : still a tale of Cinderella? / Chris Aulich
The United States : executive-centred politics / Hank V. Savitch and Ronald K. Vogel
A new intergovernmentalism? / Mike Goldsmith
Towards local governance? / Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose

This is a broad-ranging assessment of continuities and change in local governance in the western industrialised world providing in-depth assessments by leading experts of a wide range of countries exemplifying between them the whole spectrum of types and models of local government systems and networks

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