New Challenges in Local and Regional Administration

Max Barlow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2004
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-1704-4 (ISBN)

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Focusing on democratization, flexibilization, ethnic diversity and restructuring of transitional and emerging states, this volume analyzes the changes and challenges for administrative structures at the beginning of the 21st century, from a geographical perspective. A team of leading scholars from throughout the world provides a differentiated spatial overview of key problems currently faced in public administration. By offering a wide range of regional case studies from Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the book tests current theories and concepts of government and governance, space and place, and society and community. In doing so, it offers valuable insights and makes policy implications.

Max Barlow, Concordia University, Canada and Doris Wastl-Walter, University of Berne, Switzerland Contributors: Doris Wastl-Walter, Max Barlow, Brian Smith, Robert J. Bennett, Eran Razin, Greg Lindsey, Petr Dostal, Carlos Nunes Silva, Wolf Linder, Jan Bucek, Raita Karnite, Rex Honey, Elisabeth Baschlin, Rassem Khamaisi.

Contents: Part I: Democratization: Local and national democracy: lessons from the 'third wave' of democratization, Brian Smith; Territorial reform of central-regional-local government relations: the implications for local economic development agencies in England, Robert J. Bennett; Municipal boundary change procedures: local democracy versus central control, Eran Razin and Greg Lindsey. Part II: Flexibilization: Multipurpose government and flexibility: an appraisal, Petr DostÃ¡l; Public-private partnerships and urban governance: towards a new concept of local government?, Carlos NuÃ±es Silva; Switzerland and the challenge of European integration, Wolf Linder; Flexibility in local public administration: responses to size and ethnic structure of communes in Slovakia, JÃ¡n Bucek. Part III: Restructuring in Transitional and Emerging States: Administrative territorial reform in Latvia: reasons, goals and strategy, Raita Karnite; Hometown associations and flexible governance in Nigeria, Rex Honey; Democratic institution building in the context of a liberation war: the example of Western Sahara and Polisario Front, Elisabeth BÃ¤schlin; Challenges for restructuring of local government in a transition period: Palestine, Rassem Khamaisi; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.2004
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 219 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7546-1704-1 / 0754617041
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-1704-4 / 9780754617044
Zustand	Neuware