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The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe

Author : Emanuele Massetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155714
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe by : Emanuele Massetti

Download or read book The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe written by Emanuele Massetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania). Each case-study considers different drivers of decentralization, such as territorial identities and the demands of regionalist parties for territorial autonomy or independence, efficiency concerns related to issues of uneven economic development and economic competitiveness, the pressure from supra-national organizations (especially the EU), as well as different combinations of these drivers. They also consider how the ideology and organisation of state-wide parties and the institutional context in which they compete shape their responses to these drivers and their strategy towards the question of territorial reform. This collection investigates the logic of the actions that guide political parties’ strategy to highlight trends that are apparent across the case-studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe

Author : Paweł Swianiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000537579
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe by : Paweł Swianiewicz

Download or read book Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe written by Paweł Swianiewicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the municipal level across all European countries. Taking a thematic and comparative perspective, the book builds on extensive quantitative data and a large survey of academic experts in 33 European countries. Territorial organisation of the municipal level in Europe is strongly diversified and yet far from stable. Politically speaking, territorial reforms tend to be risky and difficult, as such changes affect vital interests and identities. Despite such difficulties, the last two decades have witnessed considerable changes in territorial divisions at the municipal level across a range of European countries. In this book, the authors describe and analyse these changes comprehensively, making a vital contribution to understanding the reasons and dynamics of territorial reform processes. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in local or sub-national government, institutional design and more broadly to political science, public administration/policy, human geography, sociology and economics.

Territorial Choice

Author : H. Baldersheim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289827
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Territorial Choice by : H. Baldersheim

Download or read book Territorial Choice written by H. Baldersheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the experiences of eleven European countries in the field of territorial reforms. Based on case-studies that outline the basic features of the politics of territorial choice in the respective countries, the focus is on national policies, politics, and cleavages; the strategies employed and the outcomes of the reforms.

Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe

Author : W. Swenden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023058294X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe by : W. Swenden

Download or read book Territorial Party Politics in Western Europe written by W. Swenden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the organization and strategy of state-wide parties from across some of the most important multi-layered countries in Western Europe. The volume provides the first systematic attempt to study the strategy of state-wide parties on the basis of the comparative literature on issue voting.

Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Europe

Author : Pawel Swianiewicz
Publisher : Lgi
ISBN 13 : 9789639719163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Europe by : Pawel Swianiewicz

Download or read book Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Europe written by Pawel Swianiewicz and published by Lgi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars from across Europe, Territorial Consolidation Reforms presents the struggles by politicians, technocrats, and the public to agree on the optimum size of government that balances good performance with good services, and the relevant arguments for the fragmentation, consolidation, or cooperation of government. Edited and introduced by Pawel Swianiewicz, this 15-chapter anthology presents the major reforms of municipal government that were implemented in Europe in the last decade. Covering much of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as detailing the experiences of "old" EU member states of Denmark, England, France, Germany, and Greece, this book investigates how territorial reforms have impacted local public affairs, public service delivery, local identity and autonomy, and what political and public debates have accompanied or been responsible for success or failure. The cases in this anthology answer how government did or did not respond to the need to provide efficient services in concert with demands for local autonomy and needed territorial reforms. Chapters on the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary describe a top-down approach to the stimulation of intermunicipal cooperation in service provision as an answer to fragmentation. Chapters on Armenia and Ukraine summarize the debate, and the decision on which has been postponed. In the final pages of Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Europe, the distinguished scholar Robert Hertzog writes about voluntary cooperation of municipal governments as an alternative, while Kurt Houlberg looks further into the relationship between the population size of municipal government and various dimensions of its institutinal performance. --Book Jacket.

Reforming Local Government in Europe

Author : Norbert Kersting
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3663112586
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (631 download)

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Book Synopsis Reforming Local Government in Europe by : Norbert Kersting

Download or read book Reforming Local Government in Europe written by Norbert Kersting and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all Western and Central European local government systems have been reformed since the 1990's. Taking into account variations in historical and national context, the book looks for different ways of local government reform, their emphases and their divergent trajectories.

Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system

Author : Eve Hepburn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847797644
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Book Synopsis Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system by : Eve Hepburn

Download or read book Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system written by Eve Hepburn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring. It examines the ways in which decentralization and supranational integration have encouraged regional parties to pursue their strategies across multiple territorial levels. This book constitutes the first attempt to unravel the complexities of how nationalist and statewide parties manoeuvre around the twin issues of European integration and decentralization, and exploit the shifting linkages within multi-level political systems. In a detailed comparative examination of three cases – Scotland, Bavaria and Sardinia – over a thirty-year period, the book explores how integration has altered the nature of territorial party competition and identifies the limits of Europe for territorial projects. In addressing these issues, this work moves beyond present scholarship on multi-level governance to explain the diversity of regional responses to Europe. By providing important new insights and empirical research on the conduct of territorial party politics, and an innovative model of territorial mobilization in Europe, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, European studies, regionalism and federalism, political parties and devolution.

Local Government in Europe

Author : Lackowska, Marta
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529217199
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Book Synopsis Local Government in Europe by : Lackowska, Marta

Download or read book Local Government in Europe written by Lackowska, Marta and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe. Featuring an impressive range of contributors from both eastern and western Europe, the book addresses three main topics: territorial reforms, democratic empowerment of citizens and the role of local leadership, as well as new trends in local finances. Acknowledging their inherent diversity, the book examines the ways that local governments have responded to shared challenges, such as climate change, increasing populism and democratic deficit in order to identify both the variety and communalities between the country-specific features. In doing so, it provides a rich picture of the latest trends in local government, as well as pointing the way for future developments.

Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe

Author : Xavier Bertrana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317374851
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe by : Xavier Bertrana

Download or read book Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe written by Xavier Bertrana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about multi-level governance have led to a profound restructuring of regional and local government. The second level of local government is under review in most European countries, with the aim to strengthen the institutional capacity of municipalities or to develop appropriate institutional structures for governing fragmented urban areas. This book provides a thematic and cross-national analysis of the key actors in local government that form the crucial components of effective and democratic policy making. Focussing on the second tier of local government, it examines new empirical data on councillors from this level of government in 15 European countries and integrates important variables such as party politics, notions of democracy, finance, multi-level settings. Divided into five parts, it addresses: Attitudes of county/provincial councillors towards administrative and territorial reforms; Their role perceptions and role behaviour; Their political orientation; Actor constellations and governance arrangements; Political socialization and recruitment, professionalization and career patterns of county/provincial councillors. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of local government, urban studies, regional studies, political science, sociology and geography.

Handbook of Territorial Politics

Author : Klaus Detterbeck
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784718777
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Territorial Politics written by Klaus Detterbeck and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of territorial politics has enjoyed a renaissance in the last thirty years. Scholars have questioned the state-centric assumptions upon which mainstream social science has been built, pointing to the territorial (re)distribution of power across and within states. This Handbook brings together leading scholars to demonstrate how territory has shaped institutional structures, public policies, elections, political parties, and identity across the world. Offering theoretical, comparative and empirical insights, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of territory on modern political, economic and social life.

European Politics

Author : Klaus H Goetz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317989996
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis European Politics by : Klaus H Goetz

Download or read book European Politics written by Klaus H Goetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial restructuring; public sector reforms at European, national, regional and local levels; changes in democratic participation, protest, elections, political communication, political parties and party competition; and challenges to the welfare state. The book also discusses how political science has responded to these changes in terms of its substantive focus, concepts, methods and theories. Many of the 17 contributions included identify important challenges for the future, including those stemming from EU integration, the reduced electoral accountability of politicians, the problematic legitimation of party government and the sharpening of the edges of the state. Contributors include K. A. Anderson, F. C. Castles, C. Crouch, M. Egeberg. M. Ferrera, H. Goetz, L. Hooghe, E. M. Immergut, R. F. Inglehart, M. Keating, H.-D. Klingemann H. Kriesi, M. Lodge, J. Lovenduski, P. Mair, G. Marks, Y. Mény, L. Morlino, H. Obinger, V. A. Schmidt, P. C. Schmitter, and G. Smith. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy

Author : Hubert Heinelt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319674102
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy written by Hubert Heinelt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political priorities, whether or not party politicization plays a role at the municipal level, and how mayors interact with other actors in the local political arena. This study addresses students, academics and practitioners concerned at different levels with the functioning and reforms of the municipal level of local government.

Revolution Or Renovation?

Author : Herwig Reynaert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution Or Renovation? written by Herwig Reynaert and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Regionalism in Western Europe

Author : Michael Keating
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781840644869
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book The New Regionalism in Western Europe written by Michael Keating and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s, the states of Western Europe faced twin challenges, from above in the shape of globalization and European integration, and from below in the form of new regionalist movements. In this authoritative book, Michael Keating traces the historical origins of regionalism, showing that territorial politics has always been a feature of the West European state. Then he analyses the post-war model of territorial management in the Keynesian welfare state, and shows how current trends are re-shaping the meaning of political space and encouraging new forms of political mobilization and action. This new regionalism is no longer contained within the nation state so that regions must face the global market and an integrating Europe directly. Professor Keating argues that regionalism is a complex phenomenon, spanning culture, economics, politics and policy. It takes different forms in different settings, shaped by the imperatives of economic competition in a global age, as well as by political forces within the regions themselves. There is a discussion of regionalism as a strategy for economic development, of the emergence of a regional level of government and of regions with the European Union.The New Regionalism in Western Europe will be essential reading for academics and students interested in European politics, future integration within the European Union and European political history.

The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe

Author : John Loughlin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191628247
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe by : John Loughlin

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe written by John Loughlin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe analyses the state of play of democracy at the subnational level in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. It places subnational democracy in the context of the distinctive Anglo, the French, the German and Scandinavian state traditions in Europe asking to what extent these are still relevant today. The Handbook adapts Lijphart's theory of democracy and applies it to the subnational levels in all the country chapters. A key theoretical issue is whether subnational (regional and local) democracy is derived from national democracy or whether it is legitimate in its own right. Besides these theoretical concerns it focuses on the practice of democracy: the roles of political parties and interest groups and also how subnational political institutions relate to the ordinary citizen. This can take the form of local referendums or other mechanisms of participation. The Handbook reveals a wide variety of practices across Europe in this regard. Local financial systems also reveal a great variety. Finally, each chapter examines the challenges facing subnational democracy but also the opportunities available to them to enhance their democratic systems. Among the challenges identified are: Europeanization, globalization, but also citizens disaffection and switch-off from politics. Some countries have confronted these challenges more successfully than others but all countries face them. An important aspect of the Handbook is the inclusion of all the countries of East and Central Europe plus Cyprus and Malta, who joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. This is the first time they have been examined alongside the countries of Western Europe from the angle of subnational democracy.

Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government

Author : Colin Mellors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415012713
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (127 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government by : Colin Mellors

Download or read book Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government written by Colin Mellors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative guide to the political parties, local government and coalitions of Europe. Written by leading writers in the field, it gives the reader an excellent understanding of the key areas across the continent.

Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy

Author : Hubert Heinelt
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319884264
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy written by Hubert Heinelt and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016. The book compares these results with those of a similar survey conducted ten years ago. From this comparative perspective, the book examines how to become a mayor in Europe today, the attitudes of these politicians towards administrative and territorial reforms, their notions of democracy, their political priorities, whether or not party politicization plays a role at the municipal level, and how mayors interact with other actors in the local political arena. This study addresses students, academics and practitioners concerned at different levels with the functioning and reforms of the municipal level of local government.