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Territorial Choice H. Baldersheim

Territorial Choice By H. Baldersheim

Territorial Choice by H. Baldersheim


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This book presents the experiences of eleven European countries in the field of territorial reforms. Based on case-studies that outline the basic features of the politics of territorial choice in the respective countries, the focus is on national policies, politics, and cleavages; the strategies employed and the outcomes of the reforms.

Territorial Choice Summary

Territorial Choice: The Politics of Boundaries and Borders by H. Baldersheim

This book presents the experiences of eleven European countries in the field of territorial reforms. Based on case-studies that outline the basic features of the politics of territorial choice in the respective countries, the focus is on national policies, politics, and cleavages; the strategies employed and the outcomes of the reforms.

About H. Baldersheim

MIJKE BOEDELTJE is director of BP-E, an independent research and consultancy bureau MARCO BRUNAZZO is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy BAS DENTERS is Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Political Science and Research Methods, School for Management and Governance, University of Twente, The Netherlands PANOS GETIMIS is Professor of Urban and Regional Policy and Planning at the Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens, Greece NIKOS HLEPAS is Associate Professor of Regional Government and Self Government at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece MICHAL ILLNER is a senior scientist in the Institute of Sociology at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, Czech Republic, and a member of its Department for Local and Regional Studies PETER JOHN is Hallsworth Chair of Governance in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, where he is co-director of the Institute of Political Governance (IPEG) ERIC KERROUCHE is CNRS Senior Research Fellow at SPIRIT, the research centre of Bordeaux Institute of Political Science, France ANDERS LIDSTROM is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Umea University, Sweden POUL ERIK MOURITZEN is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark SIV SANDBERG is a senior researcher at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Abo Akademi University, Finland MELANIE WALTER-ROGG is Lecturer at the Department of Empirical Political Research and Policy Analysis at the University of Munich, Germany

Table of Contents

Territorial Choice: Rescaling Governance in European States; H.Baldersheim & L.E.Rose The Danish Revolution in Local Government: How and Why?; P.E.Mouritzen Finnish Power-shift: The Defeat of the Periphery; S.Sandberg The Swedish Model Under Stress: Waning of the Egalitarian, Unitary State?; A.Lidstrom The staying Power of the Norwegian Periphery; H.Baldersheim & L.Rose Larger and Larger? The Endless Search for Efficiency in the UK; P.John Step-by-step: Territorial Choice in the Netherlands; M.Boedeltje & B.Denters Multiple Choice: The Persistence of Territorial Pluralism in the German Federation; M.Walter-Rogg France and its 36,000 Communes: An Impossible Reform?; E.Kerrouche Italian Regionalism: A Semi-federation is Taking Shape or is it?; M. Brunazzo Efficiency Imperatives in a Fragmented Polity: Reinventing Local Government in Greece; P.Getimis & N.Hlepas Top-down or Bottom-up? Coping with Territorial Fragmentation in the Czech Republic; M.Illner A Comparative Analysis of Territorial Choice in Europe Conclusions; H.Baldersheim & L.E.Rose Bibliography

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NPB9780230233331
9780230233331
0230233333
Territorial Choice: The Politics of Boundaries and Borders by H. Baldersheim
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2010-07-07
283
N/A
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