Reshaping Central Government
Author: John Gretton
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780946967292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Gretton
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780946967292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J.B. Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-08
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1317474473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform of local governments. This volume looks at some important issues confronting contemporary efforts to consolidate governments and develops a theoretical approach to understanding both the motivations for pursuing consolidation and the way the rules guiding the process shape the outcome. Individual chapters consider the push for city-county consolidation and the current context in which such decisions are debated, along with several alternatives to city-county consolidation. The transaction costs of city-county consolidation are compared against the costs of municipal annexation, inter-local agreements, and the use of special district governments to achieve the desired consolidation of services. The final chapters compare competing perspectives for and against consolidation and put together some of the pieces of an explanatory theory of local government consolidation.
Author: Michael Parkinson
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780946967193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nirmala Rao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1317581512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →India’s cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion. While India is acknowledged as a rising power, poised to emerge into the front rank of global economies, the pace and scale of its urbanisation calls for more effective metropolitan management if that growth is not to be constrained by gathering urban crisis. This book addresses some key issues of governance and management for India’s principal urban areas of Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. As three of the greatest Indian cities, they have evolved in recent decades into large metropolitan regions with complex, overlapping and often haphazard governance arrangements. All three cities exemplify the challenges of urbanisation and serve here as case studies to explore the five dimensions of urban governance in terms of devolution, planning, structures of delivery, urban leadership and civic participation. London, with its recent establishment of a directly elected Mayor, provides a reference point for this analysis, and signifies the extent to which urban leadership has moved to the top of the urban governance agenda. In arguing the case for reform of metropolitan governance, the book demonstrates that it would be too simplistic to imagine that London’s institutional structure can be readily transposed on to the very different political and cultural fabric of India’s urban life. Confronting India’s urban crisis with a comparative analysis that identifies the limits of policy transfer, the book will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of Politics, Governance, and Urban studies.
Author: Harry Ward Richardson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1849805784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book first examines some radical new directions in Korea's regional policies instigated by the newly established permanent Presidential Commission of Regional Development. The existing nine provinces and seven 'Special Cities' (i.e. metropolitan areas), will yield considerable power and budget authority to seven new mega-regions. Many of the ideas behind the new policies (such as territorial cohesion, regional innovation and regional competitiveness) were inspired from abroad, especially Europe. There are also changes at the lower urban scale to modify Korea's traditional top-down strategies. Previous policies, named ?balanced national development', were targeted at undermining Seoul by redistributing activities, including government, to other parts of the country under the zero sum game assumption. The new policies aim to benefit both the Capital Region and other mega-regions under a ?win-win' assumption. The book evaluates these approaches. Original contributions from some of the field's foremost scholars - including Sang-Chuel Choe, Sir Peter Hall, Andreas Faludi, Michael Storper, Takashi Onishi, Maryann Feldman and Sam Ock Park - identify priorities for territorial integration, develop ideas for crossborder cooperation, discuss EU policy and policies for overall regional competitiveness, examine the construction of regional entrepreneurial advantage and consider fiscal policy and decision-making.
Author: Committee for Economic Development
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Statement on government policy in respect of urban area public administration in the USA - examines government structure and systems concerning problems of community development, and urbanization, and covers employment opportunities, structural unemployment, education, housing, recreation services, transport, health, water supply and waste disposal, the administration of justice, etc.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-06-26
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9264302913
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the last decades, and in line with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, cities and regions have played an important part in helping to implement global agendas at local level through their Decentralised Development Cooperation (DDC) activities.
Author: Rita Chawla-Duggan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1136366687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume evaluates the implications of change for the providers and consumers of post-1988 secondary education for the 21st century. The issues covered include school governance, parental choice and the market place, and local management of schools.
Author: Brita Olerup
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1351730231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title was first published in 2002: Uniting scholars from across the full range of social sciences, this distinctive volume provides a unique overview of northern European planning. It examines all the key issues as well as the evolution, traditions, current innovations and future developments in the field of planning. Focusing on how planning impacts upon social issues such as employment, social exclusion and quality of life, the volume also looks at innovations in planning policy and practice, in particular the challenge of sustainability. The contributors analyze the built environment's relationship with culture and take a critical look at the creative re-thinking currently taking place in Nordic planning.
Author: N. Johnson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-07-02
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0230503365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reshaping the British Constitution provides a vigorous critique of the deformations of Britain's customary constitution and why it could not effectively stem the growth of a centralized political authority. On this foundation it provides a critical description and assessment of recent constitutional changes including devolution, House of Lords reform, human rights and the encroachment of the European Union. Nevil Johnson suggests that since the reform programme has rested on pragmatic political expediency rather than on coherent thinking about constitutional principles, it is likely to strengthen the familiar deformations of the customary constitution.