Towards a new concept of local self-government?
Subtitle: recent local government legislation in comparative perspective
By: edited by Erik Amnå and Stig Montin.
Contributors: Amnå, Erik.; Montin, Stig.
Publisher: Fagbokforlaget
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Bergen [Norway]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Central-local government relations -- Congresses.; Decentralization in government -- Congresses.; Local government -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at an international seminar held in Oslo in 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: A conceptual framework / Stig Montin; value: Intergovernmental relationships and local government reform in Japan : a case of the integrative system / Kengo Akizuki; value: Municipal autonomy and intergovernmental relations : the Hungarian case / Tamás M. Horváth; value: New partnership and collaboration : local government and its supporting institutions : the case of Poland / Miroslaw Grochowski and Joanna Regulska; value: Local government in Spain : between centralist traditions and regional decentralisation / Joan Botella; value: From New Management to New Labour : tensions and hopes in reform of British local government / Gerry Stoker; value: The Local Government Act and local government reform in Sweden / Stig Montin and Erik Amnå; value: Political implications of the new Norwegian Local Government Act of 1992 / Helge O. Larsen and Audun Offerdal; value: Towards a new concept of local self-government? / Erik Amnå.