New challenges in local and regional administration / edited by Max Barlow, Doris Wastl-Walter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barlow, I. M.

Wastl-Walter, Doris, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government--Congresses.

Regional planning--Congresses.

Regional planning.

Public administration--Congresses.

Public administration.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

I Democratization 1

1 Local and National Democracy: Lessons from the 'Third Wave' of Democratization / Brian Smith 3

2 Territorial Reform of Central-Regional-Local Government Relations: The Implications for Local Economic Development Agencies in England / Robert J. Bennett 21

3 Municipal Boundary Change Procedures: Local Democracy versus Central Control / Eran Razin, Greg Lindsey 37

II Flexibilization 57

4 Multipurpose Government and Flexibility: An Appraisal / Petr Dostal 59

5 Public-Private Partnerships and Urban Governance: Towards a New Concept of Local Government? / Carlos Nunes Silva 73

6 Switzerland and the Challenge of European Integration / Wolf Linder 85

7 Flexibility in Local Public Administration: Responses to Size and Ethnic Structure of Communes in Slovakia / Jan Bucek 95

III Restructuring in Transitional and Emerging States 109

8 Administrative Territorial Reform in Latvia: Reasons, Goals and Strategy / Raita Karnite 111

9 Hometown Associations and Flexible Governance in Nigeria / Rex Honey 123

10 Democratic Institution Building in the Context of a Liberation War: The Example of Western Sahara and Polisario Front / Elisabeth Baschlin 137

11 Challenges for Restructuring of Local Government in a Transition Period: Palestine / Rassem Khamaisi 155.

Notes:

Papers from the conference "New challenges in local and regional administration" in Spiez, Switzerland, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754617041

OCLC:

52623538