Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems: A Comparative Legal Study in the Federal-Local Connection (Paperback)

Comparing and Contrasting Local Government in Multi-Layered Systems.- Part I - The Federal-local Connection in Mature Federations.- The US Local Government Organisation: Origins, Development, and Federal Implications.- Local Governments in the Canadian Federal System - Institutions, Jurisdiction and Cooperation.- Local Governance in the Swiss Federal System. Comparative and Alternative Approaches to the Traditional Paradigm.- Local Governments in Germany between Growing Challenges and Precarious Budgets.- Local Government in Australia: Constitutionally Subordinate, but Vibrant and Fundamental.- Local Governance in Austria: Diversity in Homogeneity.- Part II - The Federal-Local Connection in Devolutionary Federations.- The Municipal Regime in Argentina.- The Municipality in the Mexican Federal System.- Local Governance in Belgium: A Taste of 'Institutional Lasagna' Belgian Style.- Local Governance in Brazil: The Unresolved Contradiction between Claims to Autonomy and Centripetal Trends.- The System of Local Government in Italy: A Stress-Test to Traditional Paradigms?.- Local Autonomy in Spain: Between Autonomic Jurisdictions and the Central Level of Government.- Local Government in the United Kingdom.- Federalism, Local Government, and Transition to Authoritarianism in Russia.- 'Everything is Bridgeable' in a Post-Conflict Situation? The Situation of Local Government in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Part III - Postcolonial Reinventions of the Federal-Local Connection.- The Federal-Local Connection: The South African Case.- Autonomy of Local Government in Ethiopia.- Local Governments, Federalism, and the Governance of Public Health in India.- Reconceptualising the Federal-Local Connection. Postcolonial Reinventions. Nigeria.- The Legal Framework of Centre-Local Connections in Malaysia. Beyond the Postcolonial Narrative: Legacy or Reinvention?.- Revisiting Taxonomies: Local Governance Beyond Western Federal Systems.