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Subject(s)

• Local elections—Europe [Browse]
• Voting research—Europe [Browse]
• Local government—Europe [Browse]

Editor

• Gendźwiłł, Adam [Browse]
• Kjaer, Ulrik [Browse]
• Steyvers, Kristof [Browse]

Series

• Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]
• Routledge International Handbooks

Summary note

"The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyses issues as local electoral systems, voting behavior or political representation in Europe. It provides comprehensive and expert coverage of 40 European countries - organized along the respective local state traditions - and in addressing a wide range of important questions related to local elections and voting, broadens the scope of existing analyses quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Finally, it affords a more theoretically grounded typology of local elections and voting. Each country chapter is written by a leading expert and follows a rigorous conceptual framework for cross-national comparisons, providing an overview of the local government system, details on the place of local elections within the multi-level political system, specific features of the electoral system, analysis of the main electoral outcomes in the recent decades and finally reflective discussion. Representative democracy is as widespread at the local as at the national level, and as the significance of local authorities in Europe increased in the recent decades, local elections represent a crucial area of study. The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe is an authoritative and essential reference text for scholars and students interested in local electoral politics, and more broadly European studies, public administration and political science"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• From perennial bridesmaids to fully fledged spouses : advancing the comparative study of local elections and voting / Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers
• Denmark : how two-and-a-half parties rule within a multi-party system / Ulrik Kjaer
• Finland : local autonomy, tenacious national parties and sovereign, but indifferent, voters / Siv Sandberg
• Iceland : where localism prevails / Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir and Eva H. Önnudóttir
• Norway : local democracy by trial (and error) / Jo Saglie and Signe Bock Segaard
• Sweden : joint election day, party dominance and extensive turnout / Anders Lidström
• Ireland : an atypical electoral system for an atypical local government system / Aodh Quinlivan, Mark Callanan and Liam Weeks
• United Kingdom : diversity amid the Cinderella elections? / Alistair Clark and Alia Middleton
• Austria : strong participation across federal diversity / Philipp Umek
• Belgium : between national barometer and local atmosphere / Kristof Steyvers
• Germany : a variety of local elections in a federal system / Angelika Vetter
• Liechtenstein : two leading parties in a direct democratic framework / Wilfried Marxer
• Luxembourg : towards a thinner relationship between local and national elections? / Dan Schmit, Raphaël Kies and Patrick Dumont
• The Netherlands : increasing responsibilities and nationalized elections / Henk van der Kolk
• Switzerland : low turnout but no second order elections / Andreas Ladner
• Andorra : local elections in a quasi-federal microstate / Lluís Medir, Pere Vilanova and Esther Pano
• Cyprus : national parties' dominance and the decline of electoral participation / Andreas Kirlappos
• France : competition only in large cities / Bernard Dolez and Annie Laurent
• Greece : mayors in the foreground, parties behind the scene / Nikos Hlepas and Theodore Chadjipadelis
• Italy : a hard-to-decipher local voting / Silvia Bolgherini and Selena Grimaldi
• Portugal : elections and voting in a dual-tier local government system / António F. Tavares and Pedro J. Camões
• Spain : one main system to govern them all? : stable institutions in heterogeneous contexts / Carmen Navarro, Lluís Medir and Jaume Magre
• Czech Republic : local elections in a fragmented municipal system / Petr Voda
• Estonia : the consolidation of partisan politics in a small country with small municipalities / Tõnis Saarts, Georg Sootla and Kersten Kattai
• Hungary : the expansion and the limits of national politics at the local level / Gábor Dobos
• Latvia : electoral drama in local governments / Iveta Reinholde and Malvīne Stučka
• Lithuania : between volatile electorate and revival of non-partisanship / Aistė Lazauskienė and Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė
• Poland : a hyper-localized system? / Adam Gendźwiłł
• Slovakia : gradual weakening of political parties in a stable local electoral system / Daniel Klimovský
• Ukraine : the first experiences with voting in the amalgamated territorial communities / Valentyna Romanova
• Albania : the path to decentralized democratic governance / Naz Feka, Iain Frank Wilson and Alba Dakoli Wilson
• Bosnia and Herzegovina : local elections within a weak and contested state / Kiran Auerbach
• Bulgaria : more open local electoral rules / Desislava Kalcheva and Daniela Ushatova
• Croatia : games of local democracy in the shadow of national politics / Mihovil Škarica and Tijana Vukojičić Tomić
• Kosovo : local elections in a challenging multi-ethnic context / Memet Memeti
• Moldova : party-shifting mayors within a nationalized local party system / Ion Beschieru
• Montenegro : local elections in the shadow of national politics / Olivera Komar and Slaven Živković
• North Macedonia : local elections and the parliamentary political dynamics / Veli Kreci and Islam Jusufi
• Romania : a case of national parties ruling local politics / Cristina Stănuș and Andrei Gheorghiță
• Serbia : three phases of local electoral politics after 1990 / Aleksandar Marinković and Novak Gajić
• Slovenia : where strong, non-partisan mayors are re-elected many times over / Simona Kukovič and Miro Haček
• Happily ever after? : comparing local elections and voting in 40 European countries / Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers.

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ISBN

• 1-00-300967-0
• 1-000-53120-1
• 1-000-53122-8
• 1-003-00967-0

OCLC

• 1293259987
• 1273727774

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