In post-Iron Curtain Europe, local government will assume unparallelled importance. Winin the EC, the principle of subsidiarity emphasizes the local arena as the first appropriate level for decision making while in the former communist emergent democracies, systems of local administration have to be quickly and effectively introduced to replace the discredited hierarchical centralized systems of the past. The editor's highly-praised "Territory and Administration in Europe" (1989) analyzed and described the then current systems and was a landmark in local government studies. Professor Bennet has now responded to the need for a new study with a new framework and distinguished group of contributors. The book blends theoretical perspectives into up-to-date case studies to produce a comprehensive study of how local government in Europe's countries, regions, Laender, provinces, departments, communes, municipalities, cities, towns and villages work. A particular feature of the book is concerned with restructuring and change in Eastern Europe, particularly emphasizing financial questions.
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-1-85293-287-9 (9781852932879)
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Forward, Libor Kudlacek: local government in Europe - common directions of change; European local government systems. Part 1 Dimensions of development in the 1990s: new tendencies of local government development in Europe; economic restructuring and the capitalist periphery - implications for Eastern Europe; free markets and centralized political power - a British paradox; local government role-reversed in the new contract culture, Tim Williams; management, tiers, size and amalgamations of local government; large city reforms; small communes and rural areas - decentralization reforms in France; decentralizing federal states - the experience of Austria; federalism and change. Part 2 East and Central Europe experiences: local government reform in Central and Eastern Europe; rebuilding local government in Poland; local government reform in Hungary; development of local government finance in Hungary; Czechoslovakia - regional and local government reform since 1989; territorial organization of society - Czechoslovak developments; development of local government in Russia and the CIS; regional development in the former USSR.
