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050 00 $aJS3000.2$b.L68 1993
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245 00 $aLocal government in the new Europe /$cedited by Robert J. Bennett.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBelhaven Press,$c1993.
263 $a9308
300 $axv, 309 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"Copublished in the Americas by Halsted Press, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword / Libor Kudlacek -- 1. Local government in Europe: common directions of change / Robert J. Bennett -- 2. European local government systems / Robert J. Bennett -- 3. New tendencies of local government development in Europe / Gerard Marcou -- 4. Economic restructuring and the capitalist periphery: implications for eastern Europe / Richard Welch -- 5. Free markets and centralised political power: a British paradox / Howard Davies -- 6. Local government role-reversal in the new contract culture / Tim Williams -- 7. Management, tiers, size and amalgamations of local government / Adriaan Bours -- 8. Large city reforms / Max Barlow -- 9. Small communes and rural areas: decentralisation reforms in France / Marie-Claude Maurel -- 10. Decentralising federal states: the experience of Austria / Doris Wastl-Walter -- 11. Federalism and change / Rex Honey -- 12. Local government reform in central and eastern Europe / Joanna Regulska -- 13. Rebuilding local government in Poland / Jerzy Regulski.
505 0 $a14. Local government reform in Hungary / Zoltan Hajdu -- 15. Development of local government finance in Hungary / Imre Lengyel -- 16. Czechoslovakia: regional and local government reform since 1989 / Jan Kara and Jiri Blazek -- 17. Territorial organisation of society: Czechoslovak developments / Petr Dostal and Martin Hampl -- 18. Development of local government in Russia and the CIS / Vladimir Lysenko -- 19. Regional development in the former USSR / Igor C. Ushkalov.
520 $aIn post-Iron Curtain Europe, local government will assume unparalleled importance. Within the EC, the principle of subsidiarity emphasises the local arena as the first appropriate level for decision-making while in the former communist emergent democracies, systems of local administration have to be quickly and effectively introduced to replace the discredited hierarchical centralised systems of the past.
520 8 $aThe editor's highly-placed and successful Territory and Administration in Europe (1989) analysed and described the then current systems and was a landmark in local government studies. Obviously now, a completely new study is required and Professor Bennett has responded to this need with an entirely new framework and a distinguished group of contributors. The book blends theoretical perspectives into up-to-date and authoritative case studies to produce a comprehensive study of how local government in Europe's countries, regions, Lander, provinces, departments, communes, municipalities, cities, towns and villages works.
520 8 $aA particular feature of the book is concerned with restructuring and change in Eastern Europe, particularly emphasising financial questions. An essential book for students and researchers in politics, geography, government and European studies.
650 0 $aLocal government$zEurope.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107082
650 0 $aPost-communism$zEurope.
653 0 $aLocal government
653 0 $aEurope
700 1 $aBennett, R. J.$q(Robert John)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79042055
852 00 $bleh$hJS3000.2$i.L68 1993