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  • The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyzes issues such as local electoral systems, voting behavior, or political representation in Europe.It provides comprehensive and expert coverage of 40 European countries – organized along the respective local state traditions – and in addressing a wide ... Read more

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  • Close Ties in European Local Governance

    Linking Local State and Society

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book develops and tests a typology of local state-society relations. To deliver such a comparative study on institutionalized relations between local government and societal actors at the municipal level in Europe, the book identifies and classifies country-specific patterns of these institutionalized governance networks. This work explores the diversity within these institutionalized ... Read more

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  • Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance

    Impact and Practice

    Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates around this model of leadership, and how in practice political leadership is exercised through it.The book draws on examples from Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices, and ... Read more

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  • Local Government in Europe

    New Perspectives and Democratic Challenges

    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 ... Read more

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  • Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe

    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    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. ... Read more

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