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      Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe
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      Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe

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      Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe book

      What is happening in Provinces, Counties, Départements and Landkreise in the on-going re-scaling of statehood?

      Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe

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      Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe book

      What is happening in Provinces, Counties, Départements and Landkreise in the on-going re-scaling of statehood?
      Edited ByXavier Bertrana, Björn Egner, Hubert Heinelt
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2015
      eBook Published 23 September 2015
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315673004
      Pages 326
      eBook ISBN 9781315673004
      Subjects Geography, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Bertrana, X., Egner, B., & Heinelt, H. (Eds.). (2015). Policy Making at the Second Tier of Local Government in Europe: What is happening in Provinces, Counties, Départements and Landkreise in the on-going re-scaling of statehood? (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315673004

      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

      chapter 1|14 pages

      Introduction

      ByXAVIER BERTRANA, BJÖRN EGNER, HUBERT HEINELT

      part |2 pages

      PART I

      chapter 2|16 pages

      County councils in a multi-level position: formal powers and assumed autonomy

      ByANDERS LIDSTRÖM, KATARINA ROOS

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Perceptions of New Public Management reforms

      ByHUBERT HEINELT AND MAX-CHRISTOPHER KRAPP

      chapter 4|21 pages

      County councillors: between revenue shortfalls and growing responsibilities

      ByDUBRAVKA JURLINA ALIBEGOVIĆ AND

      part |2 pages

      PART II

      chapter 5|18 pages

      The political representation focuses of second-tier councillors in Europe

      ByCRISTINA STĂNUŞ

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Representational styles among county and municipal councillors

      ByJACOB AARS, BJARTE FOLKESTAD

      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

      ByCARMEN NAVARRO, LLUÍS MEDIR

      chapter 8|28 pages

      Notions of democracy of councillors at the municipal and second tier of local government – and their role perception and behaviour

      ByHUBERT HEINELT

      part |2 pages

      PART III

      chapter 9|16 pages

      The importance of political parties in county government

      ByCOLIN COPUS, DAVID SWEETING, THOM OLIVER

      chapter 10|20 pages

      Parties and ideology: how parties shape their manifestos to obtain votes

      ByBJÖRN EGNER

      chapter 11|22 pages

      Actors’ infl uence and horizontal power relations at the second tier of local government

      ByPANAGIOTIS GETIMIS, NIKOS HLEPAS

      part |2 pages

      PART IV

      chapter 12|24 pages

      The political career of county councillors in Europe: examining the internal logic of professionalization and comparative country patterns

      ByXAVIER BERTRANA, JAUME MAGRE, JOAN MANEL SÁNCHEZ,

      chapter 13|27 pages

      Political professionalization of county councillors in Europe

      ByDAN RYŠAVÝ, DANIEL ČERMÁK

      chapter 14|21 pages

      Family, ambition, local rootedness and party: a study of the activation and apprenticeships of the county councillor in Europe

      ByERIC KERROUCHE, CORENTIN POYET
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