Localism and the design of political systems / Rick Harmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harmes, Rick, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge studies in governance and public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government--Cross-cultural studies.

Local government.

Political planning--Cross-cultural studies.

Political planning.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages) : maps.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introducing localism p. 1

Localism: a political doctrine for our times? p. 1

Questions and aims p. 1

Key themes and paradigms covered in this book p. 2

Organizing perspectives p. 4

2 Analysing localism p. 6

The polycentric world order p. 6

In search of localism: mapping the intellectual and conceptual landscape p. 6

Conceptual analysis of localism p. 11

Tfoe localist turn: geography, environmentalism, politics p. 12

Analysing social and political organization p. 14

Three dynamics of localism p. 16

3 Localism in context p. 22

Place, space and scale: core dimensions of social and political organization p. 22

Communities of place and their governance p. 24

The nation state and the limits of government p. 25

The international relations system and the size of states p. 27

The global and the local p. 29

Multi-level governance, empires and political orders p. 31

Political community, public goods and sovereignty p. 35

Localism and sovereignty in conflict: the case of Catalonia and Spain p. 37

4 Varieties of localism p. 54

'Old localism': established local governance p. 54

Neighbourhood governance p. 56

Governance at the micro level: pathologies and challenges p. 58

Governing locally in a polycentric world: towards a 'new' localism? p. 62

Trans-localism and the upward-shaping potential of the local p. 64

Localism in flux: Cornwall, England, UK p. 66

5 Localism and public value p. 96

On public goods and public value p. 96

Core domains of public value p. 98

Localism and democracy p. 100

Localism and human wellbeing p. 103

Localism and environmental sustaindbility p. 108

Joining up the domains of public value p. 113

Territorial cohesion within political systems: the case of the European Union p. 115

6 Designing for localism and multi-level governance p. 128

Institutions, political systems and their design p. 128

Principles for institutional and system design p. 132

Design trends in national, regional and local governance p. 135

Visionary localism: the case of India and Kerala p. 137

7 Local outcomes p. 163

Policy evaluation and achieving public value p. 163

Towards a local outcomes framework p. 164

Evaluating local outcomes in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly p. 166

Evaluating localism: Area Assessment in the UK and Cornwall, 2009-2010 p. 169

8 Localism and political systems in the twenty-first century p. 173

The argument so far p. 173

The twenty-first-century design context p. 177

Designing political systems p. 179

In conclusion: ten propositions p. 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Harmes, Rick. Localism and the design of political systems

ISBN:

9781000332650

1000332659

9780367810054

0367810050

Publisher Number:

40030354596

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