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This text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and explain the significant processes of change characterizing local government systems and to place these in a genuinely comparative context. Students are introduced to the traditional structures and institutions of local government and shown how these have been transforming in response to increased economic and political competition, new ideas, institutional reform and the Europeanization of public policies in Europe. At the books core is the perceived transition from local government to local governance. This key development is traced thematically across a w
Local Regimes in Western Europe
Local Regimes in Western Europe
Governance is about the move toward a more informal form of politics. As a shift away from relatively restricted and formalized patterns of public decision-making, governance derives from the diverse sets of relationships across the many organizations occupying the local space. Chapter 1 discusses how this practice of governing derives from the multiplication of agencies and from the greater role the private sector plays in local politics. The shift from formal patterns of policy-making means that decision-makers build new or stronger relationships with each other to solve the central problems of public policy. European local political ...
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