Territorial Choice The Politics of Boundaries and Borders

by Baldersheim, Harald; Rose, Lawrence E.

• ISBN13: 9780230233331
• ISBN10: 0230233333
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book presents the experiences of eleven European countries in the field of territorial reforms. Based on case-studies that outline the basic features of the politics of territorial choice in the respective countries, the focus is on national policies, politics, and cleavages; the strategies employed and the outcomes of the reforms.

Author Biography

HARALD BALDERSHEIM is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. He specializes in public administration and local government studies, including e-government, and has published extensively in these fields.

LAWRENCE E. ROSE is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. He specializes in local government and politics, local democracy, issues of democratic citizenship, and comparative political behaviour. Together with Bas Denters he edited Comparing Local Governance (2005).

Table of Contents

List of Exhibits and Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Territorial Choice: Rescaling Governance in European States	p. 1
The Danish Revolution in Local Government: How and Why?	p. 21
Finnish Power-Shift: The Defeat of the Periphery?	p. 42
The Swedish Model under Stress: The Waning of the Egalitarian, Unitary State?	p. 61
The Staying Power of the Norwegian Periphery	p. 80
Larger and Larger? The Endless Search for Efficiency in the UK	p. 101
Step-by-Step: Territorial Choice in the Netherlands	p. 118
Multiple Choice: The Persistence of Territorial Pluralism in the German Federation	p. 138
France and Its 36,000 Communes: An Impossible Reform?	p. 160
Italian Regionalism: A Semi-Federation is Taking Shape - Or is It?	p. 180
Efficiency Imperatives in a Fragmented Polity: Reinventing Local Government in Greece	p. 198
Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Coping with Territorial Fragmentation in the Czech Republic	p. 214
A Comparative Analysis of Territorial Choice in Europe - Conclusions	p. 234
Bibliography	p. 260
Index	p. 273
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