State and Locality
A Comparative Perspective on State Restructuring
Published on 1. December 1990
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-86187-983-0 (ISBN)
Description
The editors hope this collection is focussed, while also allowing contributors to follow their particular interests. To this end authors were asked both to ensure they covered a minimum list of aspects of the subject, and to choose for special treatment a theme which was of particular interest to them. In this way the editor hoped to obtain the material necessary to an adequate comparative understanding of state restructuring processes in the different countries without losing sight of some of their specificities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15 maps, bibliograph
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86187-983-0 (9780861879830)
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Content
Introduction - the significance of local power in theory and practice, Chris Pickvance and Edmond Preteceille; centralized economic control in a decentralized welfare state - Danish central-local government relations 1970-1986, Jens Tonboe; the difficulty of control and the ease of structural reform - British local government in the 1980s, Chris Pickvance; the relationship between local and federal government policy in the Federal Republic of Germany, Hartmut Haeusserman; from centralization to decentralization - social restructuring and French local government, Edmond Preteceille; economic development policy in the U.S. federal system under the Reagan administration, Susan Fainstein and Norman Fainstein; local power in Canada - stakes and challenges in the restructuring of the state, Pierre Hamel and Lizette Jalbert; conclusion - towards a comparative analysis of state restructuring and local power, Chris Pickvance and Edmond Preteceille.