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Local government --- Public administration --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Public officers

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This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are. It fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive study of the different components of local autonomy across a large number of countries, over time. It offers a theoretically saturated concept to measure local autonomy and applies it to 39 countries, including all 28 EU member states together with Albania, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland Turkey and Ukraine, over a period of 25 years (1990-2014). Andreas Ladner is Professor of Political Institutions and Public Administration at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Harald Baldersheim is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. Nikos Hlepas is Associate Professor for Local Self-Government and Regional Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Nicolas Keuffer is Research Assistant at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Carmen Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain. Kristof Steyvers is Professor of Political science, Ghent University, Belgium. Paweł Swianiewicz is Professor in the Department of Development and Local Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Public policy. --- Europe-Politics and government. --- Political science. --- Comparative politics. --- Legislative bodies. --- European Union. --- Public Policy. --- European Politics. --- Governance and Government. --- Comparative Politics. --- Legislative and Executive Politics. --- European Union Politics. --- Bicameralism --- Legislatures --- Parliaments --- Unicameral legislatures --- Constitutional law --- Estates (Social orders) --- Representative government and representation --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Comparative government.

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Les questions les plus complexes auxquelles sont aujourd’hui confrontés les gouvernements locaux concernent les aires métropolitaines. Comment gérer en effet les mouvements continus d’étalement urbain ? Quelles solutions apporter à la dissociation croissante s’opérant au fil des ans entre les espaces de vie des individus et leurs espaces politico-institutionnels ? Face aux nouveaux enjeux - développement économique, ségrégation sociospatiale, protection de l’environnement… - qui justifient plus encore qu’auparavant des comportements et pratiques de coopération, la démocratie territoriale se trouve paradoxalement soumise à un processus global de fragmentation qui fragilise substantiellement la légitimité de son action. Les sciences sociales et en particulier la science politique se devaient donc d’étudier les effets profonds et multiples de ce décalage grandissant sur le fonctionnement de la démocratie territoriale. Le GRALE (Groupement de recherches sur l’administration locale en Europe) et le Laboratoire européen associé du CNRS CODE (Comparer les démocraties en Europe) ont ainsi décidé de relever ce défi scientifique en soutenant, entre 2003 et 2006, un programme de recherche comparative internationale, l’Observatoire international des métropoles (OIM). Issu de ce programme, l’ouvrage présente une série d’analyses approfondies, nationales et comparatives, des principaux enjeux socio-politiques de la métropolisation dans différents pays occidentaux.

Metropolitan government. --- Metropolitan areas. --- Urbanization --- Political aspects. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Conurbations --- MAs (Metropolitan areas) --- Metropolitan statistical areas --- Urban areas --- Consolidation of local governments --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan areas --- Municipal corporations --- Municipal government --- urbanisation --- politique urbaine --- administration --- agglomération urbaine --- sociologie urbaine