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Informationen zum Autor I am a research professor in the department of political science, University of Gothenburg. I am also adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Nordland University in Bodö, Norway. I have held numerous overseas visiting appointments, most recently at the City University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne and University of Auckland. Klappentext Challenges to Local Government offers a timely discussion of how local governments have implemented public policies during the last decade. Concentrating on Britain and the United States (but with essays on Scandinavia, France and Canada) the authors document, explain and analyze the implications of these policies for local autonomy, focusing especially upon local economic initiatives. Zusammenfassung Challenges to Local Government offers a timely discussion of how local governments have implemented public policies during the last decade. Concentrating on Britain and the United States (but with essays on Scandinavia! France and Canada) the authors document! explain and analyze the implications of these policies for local autonomy! focusing especially upon local economic initiatives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Desmond S King and Jon Pierre PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Local Autonomy - Michael Goldsmith Theory and Practice Assessing Local Autonomy - Jon Pierre PART TWO: ECONOMIC CHALLENGES Displacement, Partnership and Privatization - Chris Moore Local Government and Urban Economic Regeneration in the 1980s Local Autonomy and Urban Economic Development Policies - Alan Harding The Recent UK Experience The New Urban Left and Local Economic Initiatives - Desmond S King The Greater London Enterprise Board Local Economic Policies, the State and City Councils - Patrick Le Gal[ac]es Conventry and Rennes PART THREE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES The Reagan Urban Policy and its Impacts - Harold Wolman Progressive Politics and Canadian Cities - Warren Magnusson Business Leadership in Urban Regeneration - Brian D Jacobs Towards a Shared Vision? Nordic Free-Commune Experiments - Lawrence E Rose Increased Local Autonomy or Continued Central Control PART FOUR: THE EVOLUTION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Regulation Theory, Local Government and the Transition from Fordism - Gerry Stoker Economic Activity and the Challenge to Local Government - Desmond S King ...
