The Future of Local Self-Government

1 The Essence and Transformation of Local Self-Government in Western Europe.- Part I The Essence of Local Self-Government.- 2 The Future of Local Democracy: A Somewhat Dystopian View.- 3 Beyond Charter and Index: Reassessing Local Autonomy.- 4 Redefining Local Self-Government: Finnish Municipalities Seeking Their Essence.- 5 Local Autonomy in the Nordic Countries: Between a Rock and a Hard Place.- 6 Local Self-Government and the Choice for Local Governance Arrangements in Nine Swiss Municipal Tasks.- 7 Chasing the Creative Class: What Works, and What Doesn't? Recruitment Strategies in Norwegian Local Government.- Part II Challenges and Transformations: Digitalisation, Marketisation, Amalgamation.- 8 The Digitalisation of Local Public Services. Evidence from the German Case.- 9 Challenges of Digital Service Provision for Local Governments from the Citizens' View: Comparing Citizens' Expectations and Their Experiences of Digital Service Provision.- 10 The Resistance Threshold to the Amalgamation of Jurisdictions: MP's Attitudes About Budget Control and Social Identification in the Swiss Cantons.- 11 County Size and County Council Mandate: Decreasing Motivation Due to Longer Distances?.- 12 Where Is Municipal Marketisation Heading? Experiences from England and Scandinavia.- Part III Changing Intergovernmental Relations: Supervision and Subnational Policy-making.- 13 Decentralisation and Reconfiguration of Multilevel Research Policy: The Case of Sweden.- 14 The Impact of Local Autonomy on Land-Use Planning: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Two Swiss Municipalities.- 15 City-Regional Governance in Flanders: The Potential of Mobility Regions as a Critical Juncture.- 16 Strategic Policy Planning at the Local Level: A Flemish Performance Starring Regional Government.- 17 State Supervision of Local Budgets: From Forbearance to No Concession.- 18 New Ways of Limiting Local Government Debt: An Empirical Assessment of the German Case.- 19 Reforms of School Supervision in the German Länder: Converging School Supervision Structures?.- Part IV Future Outlook and Scenarios.- 20 Future Outlook and Scenarios.