This book provides a thematic and cross-national analysis of the key actors in local government that form the crucial components of effective and democratic policy making. Focussing on the second tier of local government, it examines new empirical data on councillors from this level of government in 15 European countries and integrates important variables such as party politics, notions of democracy, finance, multi-level settings. Divided into five parts, it addresses:
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of local government, urban studies, regional studies, political science, sociology and geography.
Hubert Heinelt
is Professor of Public Administration/Public Policy and Urban Studies at the Institute of Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.Xavier Bertrana
is a member of the Research Group on Local Government, University of Barcelona, Spain. He is also the Head of the Planning and Evaluation Unit of the Provincial Council of Barcelona.Björn Egner
is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.