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E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 349 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Urban and Regional Research International

Kersting / Vetter Reforming Local Government in Europe

Closing the Gap between Democracy and Efficiency
2003
ISBN: 978-3-663-11258-7
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

Closing the Gap between Democracy and Efficiency

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 349 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Urban and Regional Research International

ISBN: 978-3-663-11258-7
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark



Worldwide processes of transnationalization are accompanied by new chal lenges for the democracies of the Western world. On the one hand these proc esses ask for more efficient and effective ways of policy-making. On the other hand the legitimacy of the political systems is also challenged by growing dif ficulties of bringing the citizens (back) to politics. This gets more and more difficult with the increasing transfer of formerly national political competen cies to supra-national institutions. Thereby the political decision-making processes loose their transparency and the chances of the man in the street to understand and influence the political process decline. But not only in West em Europe political systems have to enhance citizens' support by increasing their input-and output-legitimacy. This holds as well for the "new" democra cies in Central Europe, which had to rebuild their systems after the fall of communism in the beginning of the 1990s. Facing these problems of political legitimacy structural and procedural reforms are on the agenda in almost all European democracies. Local authorities are one of the main actors in this context of public sector reform. The different political and administrative reforms of local govern ments during the last decades were implemented with regard to their positive consequences for at least one of the goals mentioned above.

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Democracy versus efficiency? Comparing local government reforms across Europe.- Local government reforms in the Nordic countries. Bringing politics back in?.- Local government reform in Great Britain.- A new role for municipal councils in Dutch local democracy?.- German local government under the double impact of democratic and administrative reforms.- Cities and municipalities in the Austrian political system since the 1990s. New developments between “efficiency” and “democracy”.- Local government reform in Switzerland. More for than by — but what about of?.- The French Republic, one yet divisible?.- Subsidiarity: fall or premise of “local government reforms”. The Italian case.- Twenty-five years of democratic local government in Spain.- Local government reform in Greece.- Local government reforms and the capacity for local governance in Hungary.- Thirteen years of reforming sub-national government in the Czech Republic.- Reforming local government in Poland. Top-down and bottom-up processes.- Local government reform in the Baltic countries.- Reforming local government. Heading for efficiency and democracy.



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