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The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Local Governments - A Global Presence
[Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle, Pam Dunning] Part I: Elected Roles and Governance 2. Local Electoral Systems
[Michael Cole] 3. Local Political Leadership: The Voters or Councillors - Who Chooses Who Governs?
[Colin Copus] 4. Traditional Leaders and Local Government in Pacific Island Countries
[Graham Hassall and Paul Mae] 5. The Role of the Councillor
[Neil McGarvey and Fraser Stewart] 6. The Relationship between Politics and Administration: From Dichotomy to Local Governance Arenas
[Alessandro Sancino, Marco Meneguzzo, Alessandro Braga, and Paolo Esposito] 7. Institutionalized Differences in Economic Development Perspectives: A Comparison of City Managers, Mayors and Council Members in Texas
[James Vanderleeuw and Melanie Smith] Part II: Local Governments in Different Jurisdictions 8. The Political Salience of Local Government in a Small State
[Ann Marie Bissessar] 9. Local Government in the Pacific Islands
[Graham Hassall, Matthew Kensen, Rikiaua Takeke, Karibaiti Taoba, and Feue Tipu] 10. Local Government in Latin America - The Struggle to Overcome Social Exclusion
[Andrew Nickson] 11. A Turbulent Past, A Turbulent Future? Reform and Disruption in the Local Government of New Zealand
[Michael Reid and Michael Macaulay] 12. Constitutional and Legislative Changes in Caribbean Local Government
[Eris Schoburgh] Part III: Range of Local Government Services 13. Local Government Service Roles in the U.S.A: Consistency and Change
[J. Edwin Benton] 14. Public Entrepreneurship: Is Local Government Necessary to Deliver Economic Development?
[Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick] 15. The Wide Range of Local Government Public Services
[Elisabetta Mafrolla] 16. Public Service Delivery in Today's Georgia
[Giorgi Vashakidze] 17. The Provision of Public and Personal Social Services in European Countries: Between Marketization and The Return of the Public/Municipal and Third Sector
[Hellmut Wollmann] Part IV: Citizen Engagement 18. Practices and Challenges of Citizen Participation in Local Government: Case Studies of Midsized Cities in Russia and the United States
[Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera, Elena Gladun, Thomas Bryer, Andrey Larionov, Dmitry Teplyakov, Olga Teplyakova and Natalia Nosova] 19. The Urban Governance of Austerity in Europe
[Adrian Bua, Jonathan Davies, Ismael Blanco, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Steven Griggs, S. David Howarth, and Yuni Salazar] 20. Redressing the Trust Deficit: Local Governments and Citizen Engagement
[Jonathan Carr West] 21. Does Mode of Public Outreach Matter?
[Sheldon Gen and Erika Luger] 22. Improving Social Development in Brazil through an Open Budget Perspective: Does Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement Matter?
[Ricardo Gomes and Welles Abreu] 23. Civic Engagement in Local Politics in Central Europe
[Oto Potluka, Judit Kalman, Ida Musiäkowska, and Piotr Idczak] Part V: Multi-Level Governance 24. Australia: Challenging Institutional Constraints
[Chris Aulich] 25. Local Government Outside Local Boundaries: Rescaling Municipalities, Redesigning Provinces and Local-Level Europeanization
[Koenradd De Ceuninck, Tony Valcke and Tom Verhelst] 26. Local Government in the European Union's Multilevel Polity
[Marius Guderjan] 27. Second Thoughts on Second-Order? Towards a Second-Tier Model of Local Government Elections and Voting
[Ulrik Kjær and Kristof Steyvers] 28. The Architecture of the Local Political Community: France; Italy; Portugal and Spain
[Jaume Magre and Esther Pano] Part VI: Getting and Spending 29. Local Government Anti-Corruption Initiatives in Post-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine: Another Tale of Two Cities
[Terry Anderson] 30. Enhancing VFM Audit in Local Government: The Best Value Initiative
[Michela Arnaboldi and Irvine Lapsley] 31. Financing and Taxing for Local Government
[Kenneth Gibb and Linda Christie] 32. Adapting to the Fiscal Environment: Local Governments, Revenue and Taxation Powers
[Mark Sandford] 33. Financing Local Government in the Twenty-First Century: Local Government Revenues in European Member States, 2000 - 2014
[Gerard Turley and Stephen McNena]
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Richard Kerley is Emeritus Professor of Management at Queen Margaret University, UK, having previously been a Dean and Vice Principal over the period the former University College gained full University title. He is chair of the Centre for Scottish Public Policy and on the editorial boards of
Local Government Studies and the
International Journal of Public Management.
Joyce Liddle is Professor at Newcastle Business School, University of Northumbria, UK. She is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of Regional Studies Association, and Fellow of Joint University Council. She recently stood down as Honorary Chair of the UK Joint University Council and was formerly Chair of its Public Administration Committee. She is EAB member on 7 international journals and researches in local and regional government, public leadership, management and entrepreneurship, and regularly publishes work in noted international journals in the field.
Pamela T. Dunning
is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Troy University, USA. She is Chair of the Section on Public Administration Education within the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA), a previous Hampton Roads Chapter President in ASPA, and is on the editorial board of the Sage Journal
Teaching Public Administration.
Zusammenfassung
The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context.
