Purpose -Explores comparisons between the English and Greek local government systems, in the hope of offering some fresh insights into the regeneration and management of local areas. Design/methodology/approach -Discusses the issue of local political leadership at a time when changes in local political management arrangements are taking place in many European countries. Findings -The English and Greek experiments with developing local self-government provide some reassurance and some causes for concern but, above all, they demonstrate that in, unitary states, Ministers and Civil Servants at the centre find withdrawing from interference in local affairs a very hard exercise in self-denial. Originality/value -Illustrates the problems facing two centralised countries struggling with varying but limited success to cope with various public management issues raised by local devolution and decentralisation. Keywords Local government, Economic development, England, Greece Paper type General review Introduction: some foundations for comparative local government studies The comparative study of political systems has now generated an extensive literature. One of the most important contributors thereto, Peters (1998, p. 10) postulates five approaches, in his well-respected text:(1) Single country studies of foreign countries, using a common analytical framework, thus enabling one to draw conclusions about the similarities and differences between that country and the author's own. (2) Analyses of similar processes and institutions in a limited number of countries.(3) The development of typologies or other classifications of regimes. (4) Statistical or descriptive analyses of data from a subset of countries.(5) Statistical analyses of all countries.Another major contributor to the comparative government literature, Rose (1993), proposes that comparison can be achieved by lesson drawing. He proposes five approaches:
v μικρά ποσοστά απαντά η ομάδα του ινερτινίτη (≤2,9%). Με βάση τα παραπάνω, η τυρφογένεση πραγματοποιήθηκε κάτω από υγρές και ανοξικές συνθήκες, ευνοϊκές τόσο για την καλή διατήρηση των κυτταρικών ιστών, όσο και για τη ζελατινοποίηση της οργανικής ύλης, ενώ επηρεάστηκε σε μεγάλο βαθμό από διάφορους παράγοντες όπως π.χ. η απόσταση της θέσης απόθεσης από το κύριο κανάλι του μαιανδρικού ποτάμιου συστήματος.Από τα παλαιοβοτανικά στοιχεία προέκυψε ότι το τυρφογενετικό φυτικό υλικό προήλθε τόσο από περιβάλλον δάσους μεικτής δενδρώδους βλάστησης, όσο και από βλάστηση χαρακτηριστική της περιοχής του καλαμοτυρφώνα. Τα δύο αυτά περιβάλλοντα εναλλάσσονταν, συνεχώς, μεταξύ τους με περιόδους μετάβασης από περιβάλλον "καλαμοτυρφώνα" σε περιβάλλον "ανοικτών νερών". Τα λιγνιτικά στρώματα προήλθαν από χερσαία ανώτερα φυτά, κυρίως δενδρώδη και ποώδη Αγγειόσπερμα. Εξίσου σημαντική θεωρείται και η συμμετοχή των Γυμνόσπερμων δέντρων. Συγκεκριμένα, η Αγγειόσπερμη δενδρώδης βλάστηση εκπροσωπείται από τους γυρεόκοκκους των Quercus, Acer,
<p>The Hellenides Fold and Thrust Belt (HFTB) is an arcuate shaped belt whose rocks were deposited in a series of platforms and basins that formed the southern rifted margin of the Apulian microcontinent. Despite a renew interest in the last years due to an international licensing round for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in Greece, still little is published about its geometry, thermal maturity and hydrocarbon generation timing of the main source rocks hosted in the Mesozoic section. The External-most exposed part of the HFTB consists of the pre-Apulian and the Ionian geotectonic zones from West to East. Being part of the southern passive margin of Tethys from Triassic to Late Cretaceous, the Ionian zone represents a sedimentary basin which was differentiated from the adjacent platforms during the Jurassic rifting and consists of Triassic evaporites, Triassic-Eocene carbonates, and Oligocene-Early Miocene turbidites. The Pre-Apulian zone, as part of the slope of the Apulian platform to the Ionian basin, is made up of Triassic evaporites and up to Miocene carbonates. Organic rich layers are found across the Pre-Apulian and Ionian zones, and chiefly within Mesozoic. Present-day geometries have resulted from the mainly thin-skinned Miocene compressional deformation developed after the collision of the Apulian and Eurasian continental paleomargins. To understand the amount of overburden thickness across the chain, we performed Rock-Eval 6 pyrolysis, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, MicroRaman spectroscopy and transmitted light petrography on Mesozoic-Cenozoic source rocks across an ENE-WSW transect in Western Greece where westward migrating intra-Ionian imbricate thrusts are evident. Overall, the data suggest that Cenozoic samples are immature, while Lower Cretaceous and Mid-Upper Jurassic thermal maturity reaches the onset of the oil window and further increases in Lower Jurassic and Triassic successions. Maturity data were used as input parameters to 1D thermal maturity modelling of wells and pseudo-wells across this transect. Model calibration by using present-day heat flow values and a Mesozoic rifting model, suggests that the eroded thickness at each studied location exceeds 1.5km. These erosion estimates better constrain our understanding of the geometry of the belt and the timing of maximum burial.</p>
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