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Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe
This book sheds light on the central complexities of municipal cooperation and examines the dynamics, experiences and drivers of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in Europe. Particular attention is given to the features of governance arrangements and institutions created to generate and maintain collaborative settings between different local governments in a particular territory. The thematically grouped case studies presented here address the dearth of comprehensive and comparative analyses in recent scholarship. The authors provide fresh insights into the rise of inter-municipal cooperation and its evolution during a period of financial crisis and European Union enlargement. This includes ...
Transforming Political Leadership in Local Government
Local governments throughout the west are undergoing a transformation of their leadership styles and structures. Some countries have abandoned traditional systems of collective or committee based decision-making in favour of Cabinet models or, more radically, a directly-elected executive mayor, while others have strengthened existing mayoral systems. There are a few exceptions to this trend. Based on original research in eleven countries the book assesses these changes in terms of their implications for political accountability, the role of lay politicians, political recruitment, the professionalization of leadership, and relations with the bureaucracy.
Public and Social Services in Europe
This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and written by leading country experts, the book pursues a “developmental” approach to consider how the public/municipal sector-centred institutionalization of service delivery (climaxing in the 1970s) developed through its New Public Management-inspired and European Union market liberalization-driven restructuring of the 1980s and early 1990s. The book also discusses the most recent phase since the late 1990s, which has been marked by further marketization and privatization of service delivery on the one hand, and some return to public sector provision (“remunicipalization”) on the other. By comprising some 20 European countries, including Central East European “transformation” countries as well as the “sovereign debt”-stricken countries of Southern Europe, the chapters of this volume cover a much broader cross section of countries than other recent publications on the same subject.
Weber's Scorecard
This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.
Towards a regional political class?
Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland. The study deals with two different yet closely related sets of questions: Firstly, how do professional politicians pursue their careers in the regional context. And secondly, how do they shape and reshape the political institutions in which they pursue these careers. The monograph is based on extensive empirical research including a comprehensive data set on the careers of Catalan and Scottish parliamentarians, systematic surveys of regional representatives as well as...
El sistema político local: un nuevo escenario de gobierno
Perspectiva teórica y comparada. El caso español. Notas adicionales.
El terremoto silencioso
En los últimos quince años se ha producido un intenso proceso de cambio en los parámetros que definían el comportamiento electoral en Cataluña. Paralelamente, la sociedad catalana ha vivido un profundo reemplazo generacional, lo que ha supuesto un desplazamiento del eje generacional de las cohortes que vivieron la Guerra Civil y el primer franquismo hacia las nacidas a partir de 1960, y singularmente después de la Transición a la democracia. Esta investigación analiza la relación entre uno y otro fenómeno para descubrir qué papel ha jugado el relevo generacional en la transformación del escenario electoral catalán. Así, se intuye que el relevo generacional está en la base de l...
Balkanologie
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Lecciones internacionales, regionales, nacionales y locales de la pandemia COVID-19. Tomo III: Una perspectiva desde la Ciencia Política y las Relaciones Internacionales [(AFDUAM) extraordinario, 2021]
El contenido de la obra es el siguiente: CAPÍTULO I: LECCIONES GLOBALES Y REGIONALES DE LA PANDEMIA - «Las elecciones en España ante la pandemia del Covid-19». Andrés Santana, Carlos Fernández Esquer y José Rama, profesores UAM. - «La UE en la nueva geopolítica». Federico Steinberg, Investigador Principal, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid. - «África y el Covid-19: reafirmación de desigualdades y una huella a largo plazo». Marta Íñiguez de Heredia, Profesora UAM. - «La gobernanza regional del Covid-19 en la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe». Susanne Gratius, Profesora UAM, Thomas Legler y Jessica Quezada, Profesor y Asistente de Investigación, Universidad Panameric...
