Dynamics and issues of local autonomy : a comparative study /

"This book explores local autonomy as measured by the updated and extended Local Autonomy Index, and considers the underlying issues related to this multidimensional concept. It analyses dynamics spanning over three decades concerning the dimensions of local autonomy and its variables and indic...

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Main Authors:	Ladner, Andreas (Author), Keuffer, Nicholas (Author), Baldersheim, Harald, 1944- (Author), Hlépas, Nikolaos-Komnenos, 1961- (Author), Navarro Gómez, Carmen (Author), Steyvers, Kristof (Author), Swianiewicz, Paweł (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025.
Subjects:	Central-local government relations. Local government. Municipal government. Municipal home rule. Relations gouvernement central-collectivités locales. Administration locale. Administration municipale. Autonomie locale. local government. municipal government. Local Autonomy Index. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface / the authors
Part I: Assessing and measuring local autonomy
he LAI 2.0: project scope, conceptualization of local autonomy, methodology, and contributions
Main results and dynamics of local autonomy
Self-rule versus interactive rule: towards a cross-national empirical typology of local autonomy
Part II: Issues of local autonomy
Asymmetric decentralization at the subnational level : varied arrangements of local autonomy
Organizational autonomy
Financial autonomy as local democratic space
Assigned tasks and tasks delivered
Legal regimes and local autonomy : the interaction of administrative supervision and legal protection
Regional and local autonomy : comparing measurements of decentralization
Pathways of access : configurations of formal and informal channels
The impact of global crises on local autonomy
Rapid changes in local autonomy : a race away from the bottom or a fall from a great height?
The potential influences of local autonomy on local government legitimacy
Appendix: LAI 2.0 project coding instructions for the country experts.