Local Government in Europe

Local Government in Europe

New Perspectives and Democratic Challenges

Bartkowski, Jerzy; Aksztejn, Wirginia; Steyvers, Kristof; Kjaer, Ulrik; Lukomska, Julita; Heinelt, Hubert; Hambleton, Robin; Neneman, Jaroslaw; Sandkjaer Hanssen, Gro; Derek, Marta

Bristol University Press

09/2021

324

Dura

Inglês

9781529217186

15 a 20 dias

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PART I The Size of Municipal Reforms When Size Matters


1 Advancing the Research Agenda on Local Territorial Reforms: Taking Time and Space Seriously ~ Antonio F. Tavares


2 Too Big To Be Local: Local and National Elite Complicity in the Narrative of English Council Mergers ~ Colin Copus, Alistair Jones and Rachel Wall


3 Consequences of Forced Municipal Mergers: Evidence from Norway ~ Harald Baldersheim and Lawrance E. Rose


4 Local Government Reforms in Denmark and Norway: Reform Tools and Outcomes ~ Kurt Houlberg and Jan Erling Klausen


5 One Size Does Not Fit All: Growing Cities and Shrinking Towns in the Spanish Local Map ~ Carmen Navarro and Esther Pano


6 Institutional Changes and Shifting Roles: Local Government Reform in Hungary, 2010-14 ~ Gabor Dobos


7 Territorial Reforms in Bulgaria: The Cases of Municipal Divorces ~ Desislava Kalcheva


8 Participation of Interest Groups at Local Level: Any Space for Democracy in Inter- Municipal Cooperation? ~ Jurga Bucaite-Vilke


PART 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 and Kristof Steyvers


10 Co-creating the Tolerant City: The Role of Inspirational Civic Leadership ~ Robin Hambleton with a contribution by 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 Sandkjaer Hanssen


PART III Keeping the Pace with a Balanced Balance Sheet


13 Democratic Functions of Local Budgets ~ Jerzy Bartkowski


14 Does Urban Sprawl Pay Off for the Suburban Municipal Budget in Poland? ~ Julita Lukomska and Jaroslaw Neneman


15 Should Tourists Pay Local Taxes and Why Yes? ~ Marta Derek


Conclusion


16 Perspectives on European Local Government: Putting Local Democracy First! ~ Marta Lackowska, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Filipe Teles
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Decentralisation; Territorial reforms; Local finances; Local democracy; democratic empowerment; climate change; populism; local government; local leadership