Overview
- Develops a “local autonomy index” covering legal, functional, financial, organisational, administrative and influential aspects
- Confirms or updates existing typologies of local administrative systems in which the degree of local autonomy is a defining element
- Offers perspectives from a unique network of local government specialists across a large number of European countries
Part of the book series: Governance and Public Management (GPM)
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This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are. It fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive study of the different components of local autonomy across a large number of countries, over time. It offers a theoretically saturated concept to measure local autonomy and applies it to 39 countries, including all 28 EU member states together with Albania, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland Turkey and Ukraine, over a period of 25 years (1990-2014).
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Keywords
- local autonomy
- local government
- decentralisation reforms
- normative rationales
- multidimensional concept
- coding scheme
- municipalities
- decentralization
- legal status
- legal protection
- constitutionalism
- policy automony
- functions
- local democracy
- fiscal decentralization
- local taxes
- intergovernmental transfers
- organisational autonomy
- self-regulation
- local administration
Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Assessing and Measuring Local Autonomy
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Towards the Local Autonomy Index
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The Local Autonomy Index as Tool for Comparative Analysis
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Andreas Ladner is Professor of Political Institutions and Public Administration at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Harald Baldersheim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Nikos Hlepas is Associate Professor for Local Self-Government and Regional Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Nicolas Keuffer is Research Assistant at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Carmen Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain.
Kristof Steyvers is Professor of Political science, Ghent University, Belgium.
Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor in the Department of Development and Local Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Harald Baldersheim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Nikos Hlepas is Associate Professor for Local Self-Government and Regional Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Nicolas Keuffer is Research Assistant at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Carmen Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain.
Kristof Steyvers is Professor of Political science, Ghent University, Belgium.
Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor in the Department of Development and Local Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe
Authors: Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz, Kristof Steyvers, Carmen Navarro
Series Title: Governance and Public Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95642-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95641-1Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07075-5Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95642-8Published: 26 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, European Politics, Governance and Government, Comparative Politics, Legislative and Executive Politics, European Union Politics