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oapen-20.500.12657-883112024-03-28T14:02:53Z The Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems Steytler, Nico Local governance Federalism multilevel governance comparative decentralization local government countries constitutions municipalities financial management intergovernmental relations metropolitan areas Argentina Australia Austria Brazil Canada Germany India Mexico thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KF Finance and accounting::KFF Finance and the finance industry::KFFD Public finance and taxation This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to examine the current roles of and future trends in local government structures and mechanisms in 16 different federal and federal-type countries. In doing so, this volume explores pressing topics such as the institutions of local government, constitutional recognition, financial management, intergovernmental relations, political culture, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the role of local government in federal systems. Contributors to this volume provide a timely and comprehensive account of the integral role local governments play in federal countries and offer fascinating perspectives on how these roles may change as individual federal systems evolve. These individual analyses are contextualized in a comparative perspective in order to gain a holistic understanding of the challenges and opportunities of various local government dynamics in different regions around the world. This is an open access book. 2024-03-13T11:10:09Z 2024-03-13T11:10:09Z 2024 book ONIX_20240313_9783031412837_18 9783031412837 9783031412820 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88311 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-41283-7.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-41283-7 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-41283-7 10.1007/978-3-031-41283-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 f899242d-693a-47d1-a89a-718261fcfb20 9783031412837 9783031412820 Palgrave Macmillan 607 Cham [...] Eurac Research open access
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This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to examine the current roles of and future trends in local government structures and mechanisms in 16 different federal and federal-type countries. In doing so, this volume explores pressing topics such as the institutions of local government, constitutional recognition, financial management, intergovernmental relations, political culture, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the role of local government in federal systems. Contributors to this volume provide a timely and comprehensive account of the integral role local governments play in federal countries and offer fascinating perspectives on how these roles may change as individual federal systems evolve. These individual analyses are contextualized in a comparative perspective in order to gain a holistic understanding of the challenges and opportunities of various local government dynamics in different regions around the world. This is an open access book.
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