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Private neighbourhoods as club economies and shareholder democracies
Belgeo, 2003 The spread of privately governed and often guarded neighbourhoods in many countries of the world has been interpreted by several authors as a manifestation of a “privatisation of public space”. However, it often remains unclear what exactly is privatised
Georg Glasze
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Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies
Media and Communication, 2023 This article reports findings from an in-depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid-19 pandemic, and it investigates ...
Steen Steensen
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Development, Good Governance, and Local Democracy
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2008 This article analyses the concept of “good governance” as promoted by the international development community, above all by the World Bank, within the predominant neoliberal development approach, emphasising the implications for local governance and management in developing countries.
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Citizens' groups as local democracy actors in Serbia [PDF]
Srpska Politička MisaoThe 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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Philosophical and Legal Basis of Territorial Self-Governance
Barometr Regionalny, 2019 The subject of the article are selected philosophical and fundamental legal (i.e., systemic and constitutional, foundations of self-governance and local democracy).
Katarzyna Doliwa, Adam Doliwa
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Post-election survey data: Local democracy and the 2018 local elections in the Czech Republic. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2021 Šaradín P +5 more
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New Metropolitan Spaces and Metropolitan Strategies in the Face of Modernisation
Métropoles, 2007 At the beginning of the 21st century, urban spaces can be said to be in a stage of growth and radical transformation. Cities are highly expansive, both in scale and scope.
Willem Salet
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BÜYÜKŞEHİR İLÇELERİNDEKİ BELEDİYE MECLİS ÜYELERİNİN PROFİLİ ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA: TRABZON ÖRNEĞİ
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019 Belediye meclisüyeleri, gerek yerel demokrasi çerçevesinde halka en yakın temsilcilerolmaları, gerekse halkın yerel ölçekteki talep ve şikâyetlerini siyasal sistemeiletmeleri açısından kilit rol oynamaktadırlar.
Çağrı D. Çolak +1 more
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Urban PlanningAs the tier of government closest to people, local government plays a key role in answering local needs and aspirations. However, local governments are often under-resourced, leaving them inadequately responsive to many of these critical local demands ...
Jua Cilliers +3 more
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Ville durable et nouveaux territoires du corps
Développement Durable et Territoires, 2018 In Bordeaux, city-dwellers’ relations to their bodies incite them to practice physical exercises more and more often and to present themselves in original and individualistic ways asserting their identities.
Guy Di Méo, Karen Foussette
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