TY - BOOK ID - 8505954 TI - Linking regions and central governments : contracts for regional development. PY - 2007 SN - 128174624X 9786611746247 9264008756 926400873X PB - Paris, France : OECD, DB - UniCat KW - Central-local government relations -- OECD countries. KW - Central-local government relations. KW - Decentralization in government -- OECD countries -- Case studies. KW - Decentralization in government. KW - OECD countries -- Economic policy -- Case studies. KW - Regional planning -- OECD countries -- Case studies. KW - Regional planning -- OECD countries. KW - Regional planning. KW - Regional planning KW - Decentralization in government KW - Central-local government relations KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Communities - Urban Groups KW - OECD countries KW - Economic policy KW - Economic conditions KW - Regional disparities KW - Center-periphery government relations KW - Local-central government relations KW - Local government-central government relations KW - Centralization in government KW - Devolution in government KW - Government centralization KW - Government decentralization KW - Government devolution KW - Regional development KW - State planning KW - Government policy KW - OECD member countries KW - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries KW - Political science KW - Federal government KW - Local government KW - Public administration KW - Human settlements KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - City planning KW - Landscape protection UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8505954 AB - A trend toward decentralisation has meant that sub-national governments increasingly find themselves responsible for providing a host of public goods and services. Rarely, however, can they "go it alone". Co-ordination among levels of government is imperative. This book offers a unique analytic framework for assessing multi-level governance arrangements, which is subsequently applied to five case studies of regional development policy: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The book reveals the importance of contractual arrangements for customised management of interdependencies, for clarifying responsibilities among actors, for dialogue, and for learning. ER -