The Routledge handbook of international local government / edited by Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle and Pamela T. Dunning.

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Book
Language
English
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  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
  • ©2019
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xvii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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    Subject(s)
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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Series
    Routledge international handbooks [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Local governments : a global presence? / Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle, and Pamela T. Dunning
    • Local electoral systems / Michael Cole
    • Local political leadership : the voters or councillors : who chooses who governs? / Colin Copus
    • Traditional leaders and local government in Pacific Island countries / Graham Hassall and Paul Mae
    • The role of the councillor / Neil McGarvey and Fraser Stewart
    • The relationship between politics and administration : from dichotomy to local governance arenas / Alessandro Sancino, Marco Meneguzzo, Alessandro Braga and Paolo Esposito
    • Institutionalized differences in economic development perspectives : a comparison of city managers, mayors and council members in Texas / James Vanderleeuw and Melanie Smith
    • The political salience of local government in a small state / Ann Marie Bissessar
    • Local government in the Pacific Islands / Graham Hassall, Matthew Kensen, Sarah Mecartney, Rikiaua Takeke, Karibaiti Taoba and Feue Tipu
    • Local government in Latin America : the struggle to overcome social exclusion / Andrew Nickson
    • A turbulent past, a turbulent future? : reform and disruption in the local government of New Zealand / Michael Reid and Michael Macaulay
    • Constitutional and legislative changes in Caribbean local government / Eris Schoburgh
    • Local government service roles in the USA : consistency and change / J. Edwin Benton
    • Public entrepreneurship : is local government necessary to deliver economic development? / Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick
    • The wide range of local government public services / Elisabetta Mafrolla
    • Public service delivery in today's Georgia / Giorgi Vashakidze
    • The provision of public and personal social services in European countries : between marketisation and the return of the public/municipal and third sector / Hellmut Wollmann
    • Practices and challenges of citizen participation in local government : case studies of mid-sized cities in Russia and the United States / Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera, Elena Gladun, Thomas Bryer, Andrey Larionov, Dmitry Teplyakov, Olga Teplyakova and Natalia Nosova
    • 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
    • Redressing the trust deficit : local governments and citizen engagement / Jonathan Carr West
    • Does mode of public outreach matter? / Sheldon Gen and Erika Luger
    • Improving social development in Brazil through an open budget perspective : does collaborative stakeholder engagement matter? / Ricardo Gomes and Welles Abreu
    • Civic engagement in local politics in Central Europe / Oto Potluka, Judit Kalman, Ida Musialkowska and Piotr Idczak
    • Australia : challenging institutional constraints / Chris Aulich
    • Local government outside local boundaries : rescaling municipalities, redesigning provinces and local-level Europeanization / Koenradd De Ceuninck, Tony Valcke and Tom Verhelst
    • Local government in the European Union's multilevel polity / Marius Guderjan
    • Second thoughts on second-order? : towards a second-tier model of local government elections and voting / Ulrik Kjær and Kristof Steyvers
    • The architecture of the local political community : France; Italy; Portugal and Spain / Jaume Magre and Esther Pano
    • Local government anti-corruption initiatives in post-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine : another tale of two cities / Terry Anderson
    • Enhancing VFM audit in local government : the best value initiative / Michela Arnaboldi and Irvine Lapsley
    • Financing and taxing for local government / Kenneth Gibb and Linda Christie
    • Adapting to the fiscal environment : local governments, revenue and taxation powers / Mark Sandford
    • Financing local government in the twenty-first century : local government revenues in European member states, 2000-2014 / Gerard Turley and Stephen McNena.
    Other title(s)
    Handbook of international local government
    ISBN
    • 9781138234727 (hardcover)
    • 1138234729 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2018019060
    OCLC
    1045643580
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