Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition

A Global Perspective
Herausgeber: Lazin, Fred A.; Hoffmann-Martinot, Vincent; Evans, Matt

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition explores the impacts that the end of the Cold War and increased globalization have had on government around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 719g
• ISBN-13: 9780739115718
• ISBN-10: 0739115715
• Artikelnr.: 22887206

Autorenporträt

Fred A. Lazin is the Lynn & Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government & chair, Department of Politics & Government at Ben Gurion University. Matt Evans is a Post Doctoral Felllow at Northwestern University in the Political Science Department. Hellmut Wollmann is Professor Emeritus at Humboldt University in Berlin. Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot is the Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and director of the Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 General Survey
Chapter 3 Changes, Ruptures, and Continuities in European Local Government
Systems: Between Government and Governance
Chapter 4 Transforming Political Systems and Political Culture: What Works?
Lessons from Bogota and Cities around the Globe
Chapter 5 Local Goods as Public Goods: A Nonpolitical Approach to the
Production and Delivery of Municipal Goods and Services
Part 6 Post-Socialist Countries
Chapter 7 The Politics of Local Government Reform in Russia: From
Decentralization to Recentralization
Chapter 8 Local Leadership in Post-Communist States: Poland in a
Comparative Perspective
Chapter 9 Reform of Local and Regional Governments in Poland: Does the
European Union Matter?
Chapter 10 Political Parties and their Role in Local Politics in the
Post-Communist Czech Republic
Chapter 11 Reforming Public Administration: Romania's Winding Road to
Europe
Chapter 12 Local Public Policies and the Access of Minorities to Public
Services: Experience from Central and Eastern Europe
Part 13 Israel
Chapter 14 Local Government Amalgamation in Israel: Towards the
Modernization of Local Government?
Chapter 15 Pluralism and Governance: Electoral Politics in Local Government
in Israel
Chapter 16 Internal Migration and Local Authorities in Israel: Tiebout's
Model Revisited
Chapter 17 Between Traditionalism and Modernity: Ruling Local Government in
Arab Localities in Israel
Chapter 18 Arab Local Councils in Israel: The Democratic State and the
Hamula
Part 19 Countries in Transition
Chapter 20 Local Government Reform in China: A Rational Actor Perspective
Chapter 21 The Political Obstacles to Local Government Reform in Egypt
Chapter 22 South African Local Government: The Limits of Institutional
Reform