Product Description: The book provides a review of the state of the art as regards local government studies, with an emphasis on contributions by political scientists. Particular attention is paid to the development of the research agenda in the field...read more

Product Description: Responses to globalization in politics and governance at national, regional and local levels of government in France and Norway are explored in this study. France and Norway are European contrasts in most respects: the former is a central force in European integration, the latter is a sceptical outsider, one represents a Great Power tradition, the other small state internationalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A study of regional and local co-operations across national borders in the nordic area (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) and also of regional co-operation out of the area (across the Baltic Sea, the North Seas or in the Barents Region)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comparative analysis of the free commune experiments carried out in Scandinavia during the 1980s. This text examines how, unlike traditional top-down approaches to reform, particularly central-local relations in the UK, free commune schemes allowed for bottom-up change and partnerships...read more