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Informationen zum Autor John Loughlin is Professor of European Politics at Cardiff University. He also holds Visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Umeå University, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques Aix-en-Provence as well as numerous other appointments. He is author and editor of over twenty books and numerous articles and book chapters on European territorial governance. He is an expert of the Council of Europe's Committee of Independent Experts on Regional and Local Democracy and chaired the Advisory Committee of Experts on Effective Decentralization of UN-Habitat. He has acted as advisor on territorial governance to the European Union, the UK government and other agencies. In 2009 he was invited by the French Senate to contribute to its reflections on reform of French subnational government. Frank Hendriks is Professor of Comparative Governance at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He deals with cross-border comparison of policies and governance systems, including the comparative analysis of democratic and decisionmaking models at the national and the subnational level. He has conducted extensive research, partly commissioned by public bodies, on governance and democracy at the local, regional, national and European level. He is member of various (international) research networks and editorial boards. He has published in international journals such as Public Administration; Democratization; International Journal of Public Administration; Innovation; Local Government Studies; Administrative Theory and Praxis; GeoJournal; Dutch Crossing; Verwaltungsarchiv; Journal of Crises and Contingencies, International Review of Administrative Sciences.Anders Lidström is Professor of Politics, University of Umeå, Sweden. His reseach focuses on local politics and government, comparative politics, and education policy. This includes studies of local democracy and self-government, both within Sweden and in a comparative perspective. Current research includes comparative studies of local government systems, and studies of democracy and political participation in city-regions. He has also carried out research on education policy, with a particular focus on how this is shaped at the local level. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe is the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of subnational democracy in Europe. It is the only book to analyse subnational democracy in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe is the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of subnational democracy in Europe. It is the only book to analyse subnational democracy in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I The British Isles 1: Peter John and Colin Copus: The United Kingdom: Is There Really an Anglo Model? 2: John Loughlin: Ireland: Halting Steps Towards Local Democracy Part II The Rhinelandic States 3: Ellen Wayenberg, Filip De Rynck, Kristof Steyvers, Jean-Benoît Pilet: Belgium: a Tale of Regional Divergence? 4: Frank Hendriks and Linze Schaap: The Netherlands: Subnational Democracy and the Reinvention of Tradition 5: Patrick Dumont, Philippe Poirier, and Raphael Kies: Luxembourg: The Challenge of Inclusive Democracy in a 'Local State' 6: Arthur Benz and Christina Zimmer: Germany: Varieties of Democracy in a Federal System 7: Franz Fallend: Austria: From Consensus to Competition and Participation? 8: Andreas Ladner: Switzerland: Subsidiarity, Power-sharing, and Direct Democracy Part III The Nordic States 9: Jens Blom-Hansen and Anne Heeager: Denmark: Between Local Democracy and Implementing Agency of the Welfare State 10: Stefan Sjöblom: Finland: The Limits of the Unitary Decentralized Model 11: Anders Lidström: Sweden: Party Dominated Sub-national Democracy under...
