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Table of Contents 1. Introduction General Survey 2. Hellmut Wollmann - Changes, Ruptures and Continuities in European Local Government Systems: Between Government and Governance 3. Terry N. Clark - Transforming Political Systems and Political Culture: What Works? Lessons from Bogot and Cities around the Globe 4. Gideon Doron - Local Goods as Public Goods: A Nonpolitical Approach to the Production and Delivery of Municipal Goods and Services Post-Socialist Countries 5. Vladimir Gel'man - The Politics of Local Government Reform in Russia: From Decentralization to Recentralization 6. Jerzy J. Wiatr - Local Leadership in Post-Communist States: Poland in a Comparative Perspective 7. Hakim Aissaoui, - Reform of Local and Regional Governments in Poland: Does the European Union Matter? 8. Tom ¿ Kostelecký - Political Parties and Their Role in Local Politics in the Post-Communist Czech Republic 9. Sandra Wells - Reforming Public Administration: Romania's Winding Road to Europe 10. Petra Kov cs & Zsuzsanna Eva Katona - Local Public Policies and the Access of Minorities to Public Services: Experience from Central and Eastern Europe Israel 11. Eran Razin & Anna Hazan - Local Government Amalgamation in Israel: Towards the Modernization of Local Government? 12. Matt Evans - Pluralism and Governance: Electoral Politics in Local Government in Israel 13. Boris A. Portnov & Asher Vaturi - Internal Migration and Local Authorities in Israel: Tiebout's Model Revisited 14. Rassem Khamaisi - Between Traditionalism and Modernity: Ruling Local Government in Arabs Localities In Israel 15. Maha El-Taji - Arab Local Councils in Israel: The Democratic State and the Hamula Countries in Transition 16. Janice Caulfield - Local Government Reform in China: A Rational Actor Perspective 17. Tamir Moustafa - The Political Obstacles to Local Government Reform in Egypt 18. Robert Cameron - South African Local Government: The Limits of Institutional Reform
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Local government -- Developing countries.
Developing countries -- Politics and government.