The Routledge handbook of local elections and voting in Europe / edited by Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer, and Kristof Steyvers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gendźwiłł, Adam, editor.

Kjaer, Ulrik, editor.

Steyvers, Kristof, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local elections--Europe.

Local elections.

Voting research--Europe.

Voting research.

Local government--Europe.

Local government.

Europe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Other Title:

Handbook of local elections and voting in Europe

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe represents the standard reference text and practical resource for everybody who analyses issues as local electoral systems, voting behavior or political representation in Europe. It provides comprehensive and expert coverage of 40 European countries - organized along the respective local state traditions - and in addressing a wide range of important questions related to local elections and voting, broadens the scope of existing analyses quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Finally, it affords a more theoretically grounded typology of local elections and voting. Each country chapter is written by a leading expert and follows a rigorous conceptual framework for cross-national comparisons, providing an overview of the local government system, details on the place of local elections within the multi-level political system, specific features of the electoral system, analysis of the main electoral outcomes in the recent decades and finally reflective discussion. Representative democracy is as widespread at the local as at the national level, and as the significance of local authorities in Europe increased in the recent decades, local elections represent a crucial area of study. The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe is an authoritative and essential reference text for scholars and students interested in local electoral politics, and more broadly European studies, public administration and political science"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From perennial bridesmaids to fully fledged spouses : advancing the comparative study of local elections and voting / Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers

Denmark : how two-and-a-half parties rule within a multi-party system / Ulrik Kjaer

Finland : local autonomy, tenacious national parties and sovereign, but indifferent, voters / Siv Sandberg

Iceland : where localism prevails / Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir and Eva H. Önnudóttir

Norway : local democracy by trial (and error) / Jo Saglie and Signe Bock Segaard

Sweden : joint election day, party dominance and extensive turnout / Anders Lidström

Ireland : an atypical electoral system for an atypical local government system / Aodh Quinlivan, Mark Callanan and Liam Weeks

United Kingdom : diversity amid the Cinderella elections? / Alistair Clark and Alia Middleton

Austria : strong participation across federal diversity / Philipp Umek

Belgium : between national barometer and local atmosphere / Kristof Steyvers

Germany : a variety of local elections in a federal system / Angelika Vetter

Liechtenstein : two leading parties in a direct democratic framework / Wilfried Marxer

Luxembourg : towards a thinner relationship between local and national elections? / Dan Schmit, Raphaël Kies and Patrick Dumont

The Netherlands : increasing responsibilities and nationalized elections / Henk van der Kolk

Switzerland : low turnout but no second order elections / Andreas Ladner

Andorra : local elections in a quasi-federal microstate / Lluís Medir, Pere Vilanova and Esther Pano

Cyprus : national parties' dominance and the decline of electoral participation / Andreas Kirlappos

France : competition only in large cities / Bernard Dolez and Annie Laurent

Greece : mayors in the foreground, parties behind the scene / Nikos Hlepas and Theodore Chadjipadelis

Italy : a hard-to-decipher local voting / Silvia Bolgherini and Selena Grimaldi

Portugal : elections and voting in a dual-tier local government system / António F. Tavares and Pedro J. Camões

Spain : one main system to govern them all? : stable institutions in heterogeneous contexts / Carmen Navarro, Lluís Medir and Jaume Magre

Czech Republic : local elections in a fragmented municipal system / Petr Voda

Estonia : the consolidation of partisan politics in a small country with small municipalities / Tõnis Saarts, Georg Sootla and Kersten Kattai

Hungary : the expansion and the limits of national politics at the local level / Gábor Dobos

Latvia : electoral drama in local governments / Iveta Reinholde and Malvīne Stučka

Lithuania : between volatile electorate and revival of non-partisanship / Aistė Lazauskienė and Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė

Poland : a hyper-localized system? / Adam Gendźwiłł

Slovakia : gradual weakening of political parties in a stable local electoral system / Daniel Klimovský

Ukraine : the first experiences with voting in the amalgamated territorial communities / Valentyna Romanova

Albania : the path to decentralized democratic governance / Naz Feka, Iain Frank Wilson and Alba Dakoli Wilson

Bosnia and Herzegovina : local elections within a weak and contested state / Kiran Auerbach

Bulgaria : more open local electoral rules / Desislava Kalcheva and Daniela Ushatova

Croatia : games of local democracy in the shadow of national politics / Mihovil Škarica and Tijana Vukojičić Tomić

Kosovo : local elections in a challenging multi-ethnic context / Memet Memeti

Moldova : party-shifting mayors within a nationalized local party system / Ion Beschieru

Montenegro : local elections in the shadow of national politics / Olivera Komar and Slaven Živković

North Macedonia : local elections and the parliamentary political dynamics / Veli Kreci and Islam Jusufi

Romania : a case of national parties ruling local politics / Cristina Stănuș and Andrei Gheorghiță

Serbia : three phases of local electoral politics after 1990 / Aleksandar Marinković and Novak Gajić

Slovenia : where strong, non-partisan mayors are re-elected many times over / Simona Kukovič and Miro Haček

Happily ever after? : comparing local elections and voting in 40 European countries / Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 02, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of local elections and voting in Europe

ISBN:

9781003009672

1003009670

9781000531206

1000531201

9781000531220

1000531228

OCLC:

1273727774

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