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Shrinking local autonomy: corporate coalitions and the subnational state

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2018
Using focus groups and government finance data, we explore three areas of US state rescaling at the subnational level: revenue tools, expenditure responsibilities and policy authority.
Yunji Kim, M. Warner
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Local Autonomy, Local Democracy and the ‘New Localism’

Political Studies, 2004
Most studies of local autonomy and local democracy fail to distinguish adequately between the two terms. As a consequence, there is an assumed bilateral relationship between them in which changes in one are always deemed to affect the other – particularly in policy formulations.
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The Issue of Local Autonomy in the Slovenian Local Government System

, 2016
The paper analyses the autonomy of Slovenian municipalities toward the central government. Slovenia is one of the very few countries in the European Union with a one-tier local government system, and while levels of local democracy have been on the rise ...
Simona Kukovič, M. Hacek, Alan Bukovnik
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The value of local autonomy — A rejoinder

Local Government Studies, 1982
(1982). The value of local autonomy — A rejoinder. Local Government Studies: Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 10-15.
J. D. Stewart, G. W. Jones
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Financial Autonomy of Local Government Units: Evidence from Polish Rural Municipalities

Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2019
The main purpose of this paper is to assess the level of and differences in financial autonomy across Polish rural municipalities. The level of rural municipalities’ financial autonomy in 2008–2017 was benchmarked against that of other types of ...
L. Satola, Aldona Standar, A. Kozera
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Financial local autonomy

Constitutional Law and the EU Balanced Budget Principle, 2021
Simona Gherghina
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Certificate Distribution with Local Autonomy

2000
Any security architecture for a wide area network system spanning multiple administrative domains will require support for policy delegation and certificate distribution across the network. Practical solutions will support local autonomy requirements of participating domains by allowing local policies to vary but imposing restrictions to ensure overall
Trevor Jim, Michael McDougall, Pankaj Kakkar, Carl A. Gunter   +3 more
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Autonomy and Local Governments in Australia

2017
Across Australia’s individual local government jurisdictions, state-local government relations are vexatious arenas of public policy debate and reform. Academic work concerned with these matters is typically drawn to the headline topics of first, forced or compulsory programs of amalgamation aimed at achieving increased financial sustainability for ...
Bligh Grant, Joseph Drew
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Democratic Governance and Local Autonomy

2004
Multilevel democracy means that the citizens belong to several democratic associations at one and the same time: at the local, regional, national and European levels. The fact that this concept has now become established marks a turning-point in the history of political ideas.
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Nationalism, Local Autonomy, and Democracy

1960
Three great political forces emerged from the experience of the Revolution: loyalty to the union, loyalty to the separate states, and loyalty to the idea of government by the people. It was the hope of most Americans to serve all three, but as circumstances varied individuals might come to see one or another as central to their thought. From the outset
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