Towards Local Governance?

Was Local Governance Such a Good Idea? A Global Comparative Perspective

“…The research although focused on the UK had a wider impact in the field, leading others to consider whether a similar trend towards local governance could be found to some degree in the local government systems of other countries (John 2001; Denters and Rose 2005). One of the weaknesses of our research programme was its largely UK focus and even in our conceptual work we failed to develop a sufficiently comparative, let alone global, perspective on the trends we were studying.…”

“…13–14) in what is claimed to be a classification of ‘world systems of local government' does add a Japan group and splits the United States and Canada away to a separate North America group. Denters and Rose (2005, pp. 10–11) with a more world focus adapt the Hesse and Sharpe model but distinguish between local governments embedded in unitary and federal systems.…”

Mexican Urban Governance: How Old and New Institutions Coexist and Interact

“…Alongside the debates on governance as networks, political economists focusing on Europe argued that local government and social forms of organizations were starting to transform in response to broader structural changes such as the globalization of the economy (in particular the unrestricted movement of capital and governments' difficulty in regulating it —Touraine, 2001; Held, 2005), the shift away from the welfare state (associated with neoliberalism in Europe —Brenner and Theodore, 2002; Jessop, 2002), and the restructuring of the nation‐state and its effects upon supranational and subnational scales (Bache and Flinders, 2004). It is at the subnational scale that an emphasis on the principle of subsidiarity and arguments in favour of decentralization and direct participation have been developed (Denters and Rose, 2005). Many of these structural changes identified in Europe coincide with those encountered by Latin American countries.…”

The Price of Democracy? Political Representation Structure and Per Capita Expenditure in Victorian Local Government

“…To address these problems policymakers in many countries have instituted a host of municipal reform programs (Denters and Rose 2005;Faulk and Hicks 2011). However, Australian local government policymakers have focused principally on compulsory council consolidation as the main instrument of reform in all Australian state and territory local government systems, with the exception of Western Australia (Tiley 2012).…”