Authors:
- Develops a “local autonomy index” covering legal, functional, financial, organisational, administrative and influential aspects
- Confirms or updates existing typologies of local administrative systems in which the degree of local autonomy is a defining element
- Offers perspectives from a unique network of local government specialists across a large number of European countries
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Assessing and Measuring Local Autonomy
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Towards the Local Autonomy Index
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The Local Autonomy Index as Tool for Comparative Analysis
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About this book
Keywords
- local autonomy
- local government
- decentralisation reforms
- normative rationales
- multidimensional concept
- coding scheme
- municipalities
- decentralization
- legal status
- legal protection
- constitutionalism
- policy automony
- functions
- local democracy
- fiscal decentralization
- local taxes
- intergovernmental transfers
- organisational autonomy
- self-regulation
- local administration
Authors and Affiliations
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IDHEAP, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Harald Baldersheim
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Nikos Hlepas
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Department of Local Development and Policy, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland
Pawel Swianiewicz
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Department of Political Science, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Kristof Steyvers
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Department of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Carmen Navarro
About the authors
Harald Baldersheim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Nikos Hlepas is Associate Professor for Local Self-Government and Regional Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Nicolas Keuffer is Research Assistant at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Carmen Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain.
Kristof Steyvers is Professor of Political science, Ghent University, Belgium.
Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor in the Department of Development and Local Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe
Authors: Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz, Kristof Steyvers, Carmen Navarro
Series Title: Governance and Public Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95642-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95641-1Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07075-5Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95642-8Published: 26 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, European Politics, Governance and Government, Comparative Politics, Legislative and Executive Politics, European Union Politics