Urban Political Decentralisation

Henry Bäck, Gunnar Gjelstrup, Marit Helgesen, Folke Johansson, Jan Erling Klausen

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International | nr. 5
• Scandinavian big cities have towards the end of the 20th century decentralised their political organisation. Substantial parts of service provision, a... Lees meer

The Quest for Good Urban Governance

Leon van den Dool, Frank Hendriks, Alberto Gianoli, Linze Schaap

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International
• This book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in North-America, Europe,... Lees meer

Individual Representation and Local Party Government

Marko Kukec

• Paperback | Duits | Urban and Regional Research International
• Marko Kukec studies the effect of intra-party coordination on individual behavior of local councilors, which is usually considered to be restrictive o... Lees meer

Renewal in European Local Democracies

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International
• This book explores the dynamics of democratic reform processes in European local government. On the basis of analyses of theoretical challenges to pre... Lees meer

Farewell to the Party Model?

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International | nr. 11
• Marion Reiser, Everhard Holtmann Local independent lists as political actors are a common phenomenon on the local level in many European countries - i... Lees meer

Local Democracy in Post-Communist Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International | nr. 2
• This book is the first volume of aseries that aims at taking stock of the status of local democracy at the beginning of a new century. Modern local go... Lees meer

Local Democracy and Politics in South Asia

• Paperback | Duits | Urban and Regional Research International | nr. 3
• I Local Government in the Third World: Legacies of Colonialism To generalize about the nature of politics and political institutions in the vast and c... Lees meer

The European Mayor

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International | nr. 10
• Henry Bäck, Annick Magnier and Hubert Heinelt There are various images of the political leader in Europe's cities and towns. There is the time-honoure... Lees meer

Local Councillors in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International | nr. 14
• Councillors are the essence of local representative democracy, linking ordinary citizens and decision-makers in municipal arenas. In cross-national pe... Lees meer

Reforming Local Government in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Urban and Regional Research International | nr. 4
• Worldwide processes of transnationalization are accompanied by new chal lenges for the democracies of the Western world. On the one hand these proc es... Lees meer