The Future of Local Self-Government: European Trends in Autonomy, Innovations and Central-Local Relations (Paperback)

Part I. The essence of local self-government

2. The future of local democracy: A somewhat dystopian view. 

3. Beyond Charter and Index: Reassessing local autonomy. 

4. Redefining local self-government: Finnish municipalities seeking their essence. 

5. Local autonomy in the Nordic countries: Between a rock and a hard place. 

6. Local self-government and the choice for local governance arrangements in nine Swiss municipal tasks

7. Chasing the creative class: What works, and what doesn't? Recruitment strategies in Norwegian local government. 

Part II. Challenges and transformations: Digitalisation, marketisation, amalgamation. 

8. The digitalisation of local public services: evidence from the German case. 

9. Challenges of digital service provision for local governments from the citizens' view: comparing citizens' expectations and their experience of digital service provision

10. The resistance threshold to the amalgamation of jurisdictions: MPs' attitudes about budget control and social identification in the Swiss cantons. 

11. Country size and county council mandate: decreasing motivation due to longer distances?

12. Where is municipal marketisation heading? Experiences from England and Scandinavia

Part III. Changing intergovernmental relations: supervisions and subnational policy-making

13. Decentralisation and reconfiguration of multilevel research policy: the case of Sweden

14. The impact of local autonomy on land-use planning. A qualitative comparative analysis of two Swiss municipalities. 

15. City-regional governance in Flanders: the potential of mobility as a critical juncture. 

16. Strategic policy planning at the local level: A Flemish performance starring regional government. 

17. State supervisions of local budgets: from forbearance to no concession. 

18. New ways of limiting local government debt: an empirical assessment of the German case. 

19. Reforms of school supervision in the German Lander: converging school supervisions structures? 

Part IV. Future outlook and scenarios

20. Future outlook and scenarios 

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