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Citizens' groups as local democracy actors in Serbia [PDF]

Srpska Politička Misao
The aim of this paper is to highlight the role citizens' groups as democracy actors at the local level of governance. The author uses the statistical data analysis method and available findings related to the local elections' results in Serbia between ...
Matić Petar
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Enhancing municipal councillors’ oversight in local, district, and metropolitan municipalities

Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation, 2023
Background: Municipal councillors have a statutory and moral obligation to perform an oversight function over all municipal functions and ensure that suitable corrective measures are taken to deepen local democracy.
David J. Fourie, Gerrit van der Waldt
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Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Populations: The Role of English Local Government [PDF]

, 2014
The role of local government has recently come under debate, in the context of state retrenchment, public sector cuts and the marketisation of welfare. Recent discussions have centred on local authorities as leaders, on enterprise and on democracy, but ...
Monro, Surya, Richardson, Diane
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LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT: FINANCIAL AUTONOMY AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Trakia Journal of Sciences
The aim of the study is to assess local self-government in Bulgaria, using financial indicators for fiscal independence of municipalities and the level of local democracy, and on this basis to formulate recommendations.
K. Petrova
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Crisis of democracy in Poland: Does it affect the subnational levels? [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo
Most current studies on the democratic or de-democratic changes in Europe have concentrated so far on the national level, while they are also important at the local and regional levels.
Szymański Adam
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Interventions and intersections: institutional environment and local level autonomy in LEADER. A comparative study

Tér és Társadalom, 2021
In 2010, when hope emerged that the new conservative government would improve the governance of the LEADER Programme, the Naturama Alliance, a co-operative network of seven Hungarian LAGs, issued a Declaration that summarised procedural issues to be ...
Elizabeth Brooks, Kovács Katalin
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Engaging with citizens online: Understanding the role of ePetitioning in local government democracy [PDF]

, 2010
This article can be accessed from the link below.According to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act introduced in 2009, UK local authorities are expected to implement ―a facility for making petitions in electronic form to the ...
Al-Debei, MM, Panagiotopoulos, P
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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State [PDF]

, 2013
We provide evidence that a tradition of village democracy is associated with the presence of national democracy today. We also show that a tradition of local democracy is associated with attitudes which are more supportive of democracy, with better ...
Giuliano, Paola, Nunn, Nathan
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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through decentralisation and the role of local governments: a systematic review

Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2019
This paper is about the role of local democracy and governance to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Increased reliance on locally generated revenue, difficulties in managing networks of actors with diverse goals and objectives, imperfect ...
Joydeep Guha, Bhaskar Chakrabarti
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Local Democracy in the West-Nordic Countries

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2020
In 2012, the research project West Nordic municipal structure. Challenges to local democracy, efficient service provision and adaptive capacity was granted money from the Arctic Co-operation Programme 2012-2014.
Grétar Þór Eyþórsson
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