Local Self-Government in Europe
Synopsis
The local governance and municipalities have always been an important system of the national administrative systems. Therefore, their analysis has had a long tradition in the European social sciences. The different regulations on the municipal administration have been compared by the books, but the approach has been changed by the evolvement of the administrative sciences: comparative local governance and the comparison of the different local socio-economic systems became recent topics of the monographs. 13 municipal systems are analysed by this book. Countries from all part of the European Union are observed by the chapters. The central element of our analysis are the standards defined by the Charter of Local Self-Government in Europe: the implementation of the Charter and the transformation and reforms of the last decades are analysed by them. However, just half of the municipal models of the EU Member States are examined by leading experts of the given countries, but the different faces of the similar trends can be observed by this book. The different ‘faces’ of centralisation and concentration can be seen. The book has a strong legal approach, but the analysis of the local governance is in focus of the book, therefore, it has a wider, social science approach, as well.
Chapters
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Local Self-Government in Belgium
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Local Self-Government in Bulgaria
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Local Self-Government in Cyprus
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Local Self-Government in Czech Republic
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Local Self-Government in Estonia
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Local Self-Government in Finland
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Local Self-Government in Hungary
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LocalSelf-Government in Italy
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Local Self-Government in Lithuania
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Local Self-Government in Romania
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Local Self-Government in Slovakia
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Local Self-Government in Spain
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Local Self-Government in Sweden

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