Local Government in the European Union
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'This book examines whether the EU multi-level system consists of not just of three, but of four levels - i.e. not just the levels of the EU, the Member State governments and the regions, but also one of local governments. To this end, the authors work with the analytical framework of an integration cycle, according to which local government reacts to the impact of EU decisions by adapting its internal organisation and external interactions in order to shape European integration in general and EU policies in particular. Empirically it is shown how complex this cycle is and how its results emerge from an interplay of formal and informal, vertical and horizontal interactions'.- Hubert Heinelt , Retired Professor of Public Administration, Public Policy and Local Politics, TU Darmstadt - Institute for Political Science, Germany
'Local government is a key topic for EU scholars. Yet, it has been somewhat under-explored, with the literature on the EU having largely neglected it. This book does much to fill this gap by providing an empirical and theoretical comparative account of the role of local government in several EU member states. Based on extensive original research, it provides a well informed and very thoughtful account of the different relations between the different elements of European local government'.
- Neill Nugent , Professor Emeritus of European Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
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Marius Guderjan is a Lecturer and Researcher in British Politics at the Centre for British Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Tom Verhelst is an Assistant Professor in Local Politics at the Centre for Local Politics at Ghent University, Belgium, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Local Governance at the Department of Political Sciences at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.