Preface Carlos Nunes Silva
Chapter 1 - Global Trends In Local Governance Carlos Nunes Silva
Chapter 2 - Recent and Contemporary Trends in European Studies of Local Government and Local Politics Pawel Swianiewicz
Chapter 3 - Governance without power? The fight of the Hungarian counties for survival Ilona Pálné Kovács
Chapter 4 - From Financial Centralization to Political Centralization. The Focal Points of the Municipal Reforms from the Transition until present day Hungary László Kákai
Chapter 5 - Development of intra-municipality decentralisation systems in Japan Yosuke Maeda
Chapter 6 - The 'big-bang politics' and process of council amalgamations: a comparative study of the state in Australia and Austria Khandakar Farid Uddin and Werner Pleschberger
Chapter 7 - Regional administrative boundaries and the building of internal borders in decentralised states. The case of two Spanish interregional borders Ramon Galindo Caldés, Albert Santasusagna Riu and Joan Tort Donada
Chapter 8 - The impact of European regional policy and Local Action Groups on inter-municipal cooperation in Slovakia Ludmila Malíková and Martin Dasko
Chapter 9 - The Rise and Limits of Local Governance: LEADER/Community-led Local Development in the Czech Republic Ondrej Konecný, Jan Binek and Hana Svobodová
Chapter 10 - Lost in Transformation: Place-based projects in the EU's multi-level system Judit Keller
Chapter 11 - European Standards in Regulating Public Participation on Sub-national Levels: The Case of Croatia Dana Dobric Jambrovic
Chapter 12 - Citizen Participation in Spatial Planning in Portugal 1920-2020. Non-Participation, Tokenism and Citizen Power in Local Governance Carlos Nunes Silva
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