Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe

Ladner, Andreas; Keuffer, Nicolas; Baldersheim, Harald; Hlepas, Nikos; Swianiewicz, Paweł; Steyvers, Kristof; Navarro, Carmen

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“…For each city-region, the sample was stratified in order to reflect the population distribution between the centre city and the suburbs of the metropolitan area. 2 We have selected two federal and two unitary countries with different levels of local autonomy as measured by the Local Autonomy Index (Ladner et al 2019). The metropolitan areas were selected based on their metropolitan governance structure-i.e.…”

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“…The respondents could place themselves on a scale ranging from 0 (preference for local level) to 10 (preference for national level). These three items tap into important dimensions of local autonomy, such as local decisionmaking authority, local representation, and fiscal autonomy (see Ladner et al 2019). We recode the three items so that low values mean preference for the national and high values preference for the local level.…”

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“…In recent decades, many countries have decentralized authority from the national level to regional tiers and local governments (Hooghe et al 2010;Ladner et al 2019). To be successful, local governments need the capacity to actually carry out the new responsibilities they receive from decentralization and devolution.…”

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Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe

Strebel

Kübler

2021

Comp Eur Polit

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Recent decades have seen a strengthening of local autonomy in many European states. At the same time, local governance capacities were strengthened through intermunicipal structures and territorial consolidation to prepare local authorities for additional tasks. In this paper, we assess what citizens think about strengthening local autonomy and strengthening inter-local cooperation. We argue that citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation are a function of their behavioural, emotional and ideological connection to the local. Using data from a population-based survey in eight West European metropolitan areas in France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, we show that local autonomy and inter-local cooperation supporters have divergent ideological positions concerning the allocation of political authority across state scales. Inter-local cooperation is supported by voters of new progressive left parties but opposed by right-wing nationalist partisans—who in contrast favour local autonomy. This suggests that the demarcation–integration divide which structures citizens’ attitudes towards international integration also matters for subnational and local governance reforms.

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Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe

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Kübler

2021

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“…The MLG concept gave a new impulse to the measurement of the authority of different tiers of government, particularly through the Regional Authority Index (RAI) first developed in 2010 2 (Hooghe et al, 2016), and the Local Autonomy Index (LAI), which was developed following the same methodology than the RAI 3 (Ladner et al, 2016). The RAI is broadly recognised as the most comprehensive set of indicators to measure the authority of regions, as it goes beyond fiscal indicators to include indicators linked to institutions, policy scope, representation, law making, executive control, and constitutional reform.…”

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The multi-level governance imperative

Allain-Dupré

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Governments are facing increasingly complex policy challenges, ranging from climate change, demographic pressures, rising inequalities and discontent, to the global health crisis that countries are presently confronting. Successful responses require more integrated approaches to policy making at all levels of government, so that economic, social and environmental actions reinforce each other rather than compete. They also require effective coordination across levels of government to manage shared responsibilities, mutual dependence and common challenges. This commentary highlights the progress in the multi-level governance concept since its first use, and focuses on some current dynamics driving multi-level governance, in particular the trend towards differentiated subnational governance. It then highlights that the way multi-level governance systems are designed has a direct impact on policy outcomes, hence the imperative to strengthen multi-level governance systems. The commentary offers insight into how the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is tacking this imperative to best support countries in their development processes.

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“…The second is that of Ladner et al (2019). These authors, drawing from Hooghe et al (2016), proposed a Local Autonomy Index, computed on two main principles (or scopes): Self-rule (i.e., to what extent an LG is independent of its relevant central authorities) and Shared-rule (i.e., to what extent LG may have a say in national policy-making), which currently represent an important instrument for assessing LG statics and dynamics.…”

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Oblique-change matters: ‘bradyseismic’ institutional change in local government

Bolgherini

Lippi

2020

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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In the last 30 years, Local Governments all over Europe experienced an intense season of institutional change of unprecedented width and intensity. This paper focuses on a neglected type of institutional change, a more indirect one – here labeled oblique-change – that however strongly influences the overall LG institutional change and local autonomy. Taking 2012 as the climax of the austerity period in Europe and Italy as a pilot case for future comparisons, this article shows that oblique-change matters to a considerable extent, and that it is much more frequent and highly impacting than expected. Moreover, it argues that bradyseismic adjustments provoked by oblique-change may turn out in an equally profound change of the local government's asset, as that induced by major reforms.

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Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe

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Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe

Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: evidence from Western Europe

The multi-level governance imperative

Oblique-change matters: ‘bradyseismic’ institutional change in local government

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