Local Governance in Western Europe

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Local Governance in Western Europe

Author	: Peter John
File Size	: 54,5 Mb
Publisher	: SAGE
Language	: English
Release Date	: 20 December 2001
ISBN	: 0761956379
Pages	: 220 pages

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This text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and explain the significant processes of change characterizing local government systems and to place these in a genuinely comparative context. Students are introduced to the traditional structures and institutions of local government and shown how these have been transforming in response to increased economic and political competition, new ideas, institutional reform and the Europeanization of public policies in Europe. At the books core is the perceived transition from local government to local governance. This key development is traced thematically across a w

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Local Governance in Western Europe by Peter John

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