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Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe
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ABSTRACT
Debates about multi-level governance have led to a profound restructuring of regional and local government. The second level of local government is under review in most European countries, with the aim to strengthen the institutional capacity of municipalities or to develop appropriate institutional structures for governing fragmented urban areas.
This book provides a thematic and cross-national analysis of the key actors in local government that form the crucial components of effective and democratic policy making. Focussing on the second tier of local government, it examines new empirical data on councillors from this level of government in 15 European countries and integrates important variables such as party politics, notions of democracy, finance, multi-level settings. Divided into five parts, it addresses:
- Attitudes of county/provincial councillors towards administrative and territorial reforms;
- Their role perceptions and role behaviour;
- Their political orientation;
- Actor constellations and governance arrangements;
- Political socialization and recruitment, professionalization and career patterns of county/provincial councillors.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of local government, urban studies, regional studies, political science, sociology and geography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I
chapter 2|16 pages
County councils in a multi-level position: formal powers and assumed autonomy
chapter 3|21 pages
Perceptions of New Public Management reforms
chapter 4|21 pages
County councillors: between revenue shortfalls and growing responsibilities
part |2 pages
PART II
chapter 5|18 pages
The political representation focuses of second-tier councillors in Europe
chapter 6|16 pages
Representational styles among county and municipal councillors
chapter 7|22 pages
Patterns of gender representation in councils at the second tier of local government: assessing the gender gap in an unexplored institutional setting
chapter 8|28 pages
Notions of democracy of councillors at the municipal and second tier of local government – and their role perception and behaviour
part |2 pages
PART III
chapter 9|16 pages
The importance of political parties in county government
chapter 10|20 pages
Parties and ideology: how parties shape their manifestos to obtain votes
chapter 11|22 pages
Actors’ infl uence and horizontal power relations at the second tier of local government
part |2 pages
PART IV