TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heinelt, Hubert
A1  - Hlepas, Nikos
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Swianiewicz, Pawel
T1  - Local Government Systems
T2  - Political Leaders and Changing Local Democracy
N2  - This chapter looks for main differences among local government systems as well as similarities among them. This has been done by the authors with the aim to grasp the institutional setting in which mayors have to act. The authors did it by updating and extending existing typologies and indices of local government systems. Nevertheless, an extension was first of all necessary with respect to vertical power relations because previous typologies considering them took neither the local government systems in Eastern and Central Europe nor the changes in the Western part of the continent into account. Furthermore, reflections about typologies are extended to the present one on public administration at the municipal level. All this have been underpinned by statistical data, the recent work on a ‘Local Autonomy Index’ (LAI; see Ladner et al. Measuring Autonomy in 39 Countries (1990–2014), Regional and Federal Studies, 26, 321–357, 2016) and information collected by the partners involved in the survey.
KW  - Typologies of local government systems
KW  - types of municipal administration
KW  - Local Autonomy Index
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54493
SN  - 978-3-319-67410-0
SN  - 978-3-319-67409-4
SP  - 19
EP  - 78
PB  - Palgrave
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  -