The Imperative Of Good Local Governance

Author : Joakim Öjendal,Anki Dellnäs
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : UCSD:31822040894495

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The Imperative of Good Local Governance by Joakim Öjendal,Anki Dellnäs Pdf

This is a true state-of-the-art volume in the fields of local governance, decentralization, and local democracy. It summarizes many of the insights emerging from original research of the past decade. It is also a future-looking volume with explicit policy relevance, paving the way for innovative thinking, and acting, on the next phase of development in the field. In a unique way this book brings together authoritative contributions from authors who to a large extent have been defining the field for the last decade or more. It looks at how good governance is created from top-down and bottom-up perspectives, illustrated through a wide variety of case studies. The case studies were selected for their relevance to the theoretical perspectives offered, as well as for their paradigmatic power in the current global evolution of decentralized policies and politics. The volume concludes that overall, local development and local politics will not go away--it has a huge potential--but also that the field is full of unfulfilled promises, some of which could be remedied through the perspectives revealed in this volume.

Author : Peter John
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761956379

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Local Governance in Western Europe by Peter John Pdf

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and explain the significant processes of change characterizing local government systems and to place these in a genuinely comparative context. Students are introduced to the traditional structures and institutions of local government and shown how these have been transforming in response to increased economic and political competition, new ideas, institutional reform and the Europeanization of public policies in Europe. At the books core is the perceived transition from local government to local governance. This key development is traced thematically across a w

Author : Alex Gboyega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113968197

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Democracy and Develoment [i.e. Development] by Alex Gboyega Pdf

Author : Naoyuki Yoshino,Peter J. Morgan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786436870

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Central and Local Government Relations in Asia by Naoyuki Yoshino,Peter J. Morgan Pdf

Sustainable and inclusive growth in emerging Asian economies requires high levels of public investment in areas such as infrastructure, education, health, and social services. The increasing complexity and regional diversity of these investment needs, together with the trend of democratization, has led to fiscal decentralization being implemented in many Asian economies. This book takes stock of some major issues regarding fiscal decentralization, including expenditure and revenue assignments, transfer programs, and sustainability of local government finances, and develops important findings and policy recommendations.

Author : Alistair Cole,Peter John
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415239424

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Local Governance in England and France by Alistair Cole,Peter John Pdf

Based on extensive research and interviews (over 300 in total) with local decision makers in two pairs of cities in England and France: Lille and Leeds; Rennes and Southampton, this book is an invaluable resource for students and professionals

Author : Hubert Heinelt,David Sweeting,Panagiotis Getimis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134223343

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Legitimacy and Urban Governance by Hubert Heinelt,David Sweeting,Panagiotis Getimis Pdf

A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement. It explores the nature of the interaction between community involvement and political leadership in modern local governance by drawing on empirical data gathered from case-studies concerning cities in England, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. It presents both a country specific and cross-cutting analysis of the contributions that communities and leaders can make to more effective local governance. These country specific chapters are complemented by thematic, comparative chapters addressing alternative forms of community involvement, types and styles of leadership, multi-level governance, institutional restrictions and opportunities for leadership and involvement, institutional conditions underpinning leadership and involvement, and political culture in cities. This up-to-date survey of trends and developments in local governance moves the debate forward by analysing modern governance with reference to theories related to institutional theory, legitimation, and the way urban leadership and community involvement compliment one another. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of politics and urban governance, and to all those concerned with questions of local governance and democracy.

Author : Bruno Carrasco,Hanif A. Rahemtulla,Rainer Rohdewohld
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000652963

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Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific by Bruno Carrasco,Hanif A. Rahemtulla,Rainer Rohdewohld Pdf

Since its adoption in 2015, the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development has shaped not only international development cooperation but also the design of national trajectories for social and economic development. In tandem with other global agendas adopted that year (such as the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and UN Habitat’s New Urban Agenda) it remains the global and regional blueprint for sustainable development despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The term "localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" has been used to capture the importance of subnational governments for achieving national SDG agendas. However, there is little deeper analysis of the required nexus between fiscal, political, and legal arrangements for SNGs; their involvement in national policy arenas (which discuss and decide on national SDG strategies); and the need for locally disaggregated data systems on the one hand, and effective SDG localization strategies on the other hand. It is this aspect which the present publication explores in greater detail by using country examples and conceptual analyses. The text will be of interest to policymakers, scholars, students and practitioners in public policy and public administration, decentralization, and sustainable development, with a focus on the Asia and Pacific region. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO).

Author : M. Considine,S. Giguere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230582682

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The Theory and Practice of Local Governance and Economic Development by M. Considine,S. Giguere Pdf

This book provides a comparative study of the use of partnerships and new forms of governance to achieve policy goals that promote economic and social development. In addition to a consideration of the theoretical challenges posed by these institutional developments, the book reviews recent experiences in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

Author : C. Richard Tindal,Susan Nobes Tindal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1926843436

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Guide to Good Municipal Governance by C. Richard Tindal,Susan Nobes Tindal Pdf

Author : Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597823111

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Steering the Metropolis by Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America Pdf

A distinctive feature of urbanization in the last 50 years is the expansion of urban populations and built development well beyond what was earlier conceived as the city limit, resulting in metropolitan areas. This is challenging the relevance of traditional municipal boundaries, and by extension, traditional governing structures and institutions. "Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development,” encompasses the reflections of thought and practice leaders on the underlying premises for governing metropolitan space, sectoral adaptations of those premises, and dynamic applications in a wide variety of contexts. Those reflections are structured into three sections. Section 1 discusses the conceptual underpinnings of metropolitan governance, analyzing why political, technical, and administrative arrangements at this level of government are needed. Section 2 deepens the discussion by addressing specific sectoral themes of mobility, land use planning, environmental management, and economic production, as well as crosscutting topics of metropolitan governance finance, and monitoring and evaluation. Section 3 tests the concepts and their sectoral adaptations against the practice, with cases from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.

Author : Gautam Bhan,Smita Srinivas,Vanessa Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317392842

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The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South by Gautam Bhan,Smita Srinivas,Vanessa Watson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep understanding of ‘place’ as well as a commitment to recognise the diverse modes of practice that come within it. The chapters thus take the form not of generalised, ‘universal’ analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in highly complex city, regional and national contexts. Chapter authors in this Companion are not all planners, or are planners of very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of the world in which planning is expected to happen. The book is divided into a framing Introduction followed by five sections: planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy. This volume will be of interest to all those wanting to explore the complexities of planning practice and the need for new theories of knowledge from which to draw insight to face the challenges of the 21st century.

Author : Samuel Humes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015022036498

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Local Governance and National Power by Samuel Humes Pdf

Provides a comparative study of the variety of local government systems throughout the world, accompanied by a consideration of the conceptual issues involved in the development of institutions and services.

Author : Richard Kerley,Joyce Liddle,Pamela T. Dunning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315306254

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The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government by Richard Kerley,Joyce Liddle,Pamela T. Dunning Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context. Examining the subject matter with unrivalled breadth and depth, this handbook shows how different cultures and countries develop different institutions, structures and processes over time, yet that all have some features in common – the most obvious of which is the recognition that some decisions are better made, some services better delivered, and some engagement with the state better organised if there is structured organisational expression of the importance of the local dimension of all these factors . Thematically organised, it includes contributions from international experts with reference to the wider context in terms of geographies, local government modes, recent developments and possible further lines of research. It has a wide academic appeal internationally and will steer a course between the two dimensions of mono-jurisdictional studies and ‘cataloguing’ forms of comparison. The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government will be essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners involved in, and actively concerned about, research on local government.

Author : Gabriele Ferrazzi,Rainer Rohdewohld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317218463

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Emerging Practices in Intergovernmental Functional Assignment by Gabriele Ferrazzi,Rainer Rohdewohld Pdf

Attaining the benefits of (especially fiscal) decentralization in government remains an enduring challenge, in part because the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government has often been carried out poorly. This book aims to provide a firmer conceptual basis for the re-arrangement of public functions across levels of government. In doing so, it offers practical advice for policy makers from developing and emerging countries and development cooperation practitioners engaged in such activity. Combining a theoretical approach for inter-governmental functional assignment with an in-depth analysis of real-life country cases where functional assignment (FA) has been supported in the context of international development cooperation, it underscores the common technical and political challenges of FA, and also demonstrates the need to expect and support country made and context-specific solutions to FA processes and results. Examples are drawn from a number of developing/transition countries from the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and the OECD, which outline and suggest advisory approaches, tools, principles and good practices and approaches. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students, policy-makers and practitioners in public policy, decentralization, local governance studies, public administration and development administration/studies.

Author : Peter Bogason
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110213662

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Public Policy and Local Governance by Peter Bogason Pdf

Internationalization and demands for more democratic influence at the local level have undermined the traditional methods of policy analysis. This work offers an institutional analysis of the new networks in public governance. Takes a postmodern approach which recognizes fragmentation within institutional organizations, and offers an alternative bottom-up approach to the analysis of local governance. Discusses collective action at the local level and describes how it is linked to the public sector through the need for financial, expert, and legal resources. Bogason teaches public administration at Roskilde University, Denmark. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR