Title: Towards the self-regulating municipality : free communes and administrative modernization in Scandinavia /
Authors: Baldersheim, Harald, 1944-; Ståhlberg, Krister.; Baldersheim, Harald, 1944-
Publisher: Dartmouth Pub. Co.,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Local government Scandinavia.; Municipal government Scandinavia.; Organizational change Scandinavia.
Contents: Introduction: From top-down to bottom-up: free communes and the politics of administrative modernization / Harald Baldersheim and Krister Stahlberg -- The Swedish case: political change and administrative resistance / Lars Stromberg and Lena Lindgren -- The Danish case: rational or political change? / Erik Alboek -- The Norwegian case: an experiment in bottom-up learning / Harald Baldersheim and Anne Lise Fimreite -- The Finnish case: a reform rather than an experiment / Krister Stahlberg -- New roles in political and administrative leadership in Norwegian local government / Oddbjorn Bukve and Terje P. Hagen -- Deregulation and decentralization in the Swedish free commune experiment / Kai Kronvall -- Free commune experiments: a new organizational culture in Finnish municipalities? / Risto Harisalo and Vuokko Niiranen -- Local economic development -- lessons from the free commune experiment / Jon Helge Lesjo -- A case of self-regulation -- the city of Hameenlinna / Krister Stahlberg.