Comparing local governance :   trends and developments 
/  edited by S. A. H. Denters and Lawrence E. Rose 
 - Basingstoke  Palgrave Macmillan,   2005. 
 - xiv, 293 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Government beyond the centre .
<br/><br/>Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Local governance in the third millennium : a brave new world? / Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose<br/>France : the intermunicipal revolution / Olivier Borraz and Patrick Le Galès<br/>Italy : after the storm / Luigi Bobbio<br/>Belgium : the changing world of Belgian municipalities / Yves Plees<br/>The Netherlands : in search of responsiveness / Bas Denters and Pieter-Jan Klok<br/>The Nordic countries : still the 'promised land'? / Lawrence E. Rose and Krister Ståhlberg<br/>Poland : a time of transition / Paweł Swianiewicz<br/>Germany : a new type of local government? / Oscar W. Gabriel and Susanne Eisenmann<br/>Switzerland : reforming small autonomous municipalities / Andreas Ladner<br/>The United Kingdom : an increasingly differentiated polity? / David Wilson<br/>New Zealand : a quantum leap forward? / Graham W.A. Bush<br/>Australia : still a tale of Cinderella? / Chris Aulich<br/>The United States : executive-centred politics / Hank V. Savitch and Ronald K. Vogel<br/>A new intergovernmentalism? / Mike Goldsmith<br/>Towards local governance? / Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose<br/> 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><br/>eng. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780333995556  NA 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Local government<br/>Comparative government
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.8 COM