Contemporary trends in local governance : reform, cooperation and citizen

Contemporary trends in local governance : reform, cooperation and citizen / edited by Carlos Nunes Silva.

This book addresses and explores recent trends in the field of local and urban governance. It focuses on three domains: institutional reforms in local government; inter-municipal cooperation; and citizen participation in local governance. In the last decades, in different regions of the world, there...

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Other Authors: Silva Nunes, Carlos (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:Local and urban governance.
Subjects:
Municipal government.
Communities > Political aspects.
Political participation.
municipal government.
Communities > Political aspects
Municipal government
Political participation
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1
  • Global Trends In Local Governance
  • Chapter 2
  • Recent and Contemporary Trends in European Studies of Local Government and Local Politics
  • Chapter 3
  • Governance without power? The fight of the Hungarian counties for survival
  • Chapter 4
  • From Financial Centralization to Political Centralization. The Focal Points of the Municipal Reforms from the Transition until present day Hungary
  • Chapter 5
  • Development of intra-municipality decentralisation systems in Japan
  • Chapter 6
  • The 'big-bang politics' and process of council amalgamations: a comparative study of the state in Australia and Austria
  • Chapter 7
  • Regional administrative boundaries and the building of internal borders in decentralised states. The case of two Spanish interregional borders
  • Chapter 8
  • The impact of European regional policy and Local Action Groups on inter-municipal cooperation in Slovakia
  • Chapter 9
  • The Rise and Limits of Local Governance: LEADER/Community-led Local Development in the Czech Republic
  • Chapter 10
  • Lost in Transformation: Place-based projects in the EU's multi-level system
  • Chapter 11
  • European Standards in Regulating Public Participation on Sub-national Levels: The Case of Croatia
  • Chapter 12
  • Citizen Participation in Spatial Planning in Portugal 1920-2020. Non-Participation, Tokenism and Citizen Power in Local Governance
  • Index.

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