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ITALIAN MUNICIPAL AUDIT: HALF A REFORM?

Financial Accountability and Management, 1995
The object of this paper is to critically discuss the implementation of Auditing reform in Italian municipalities. A new complex system of Auditing (heavily influenced by the UK's value for money auditing) was introduced following recent legislation. This study is based on an analysis of the reports of municipalities within the Tuscany region.
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P. R. and Municipal Reform

The Review of Politics, 1943
Treatises on political machines in the United States too often suffer from a lack of historical perspective. Machine government is due to factors peculiar to certain periods in American history, and it is doomed to disappear when its historical basis disintegrates.
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Winning the West to Municipal Reform

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992
In the 20 years after 1900, municipal reformers celebrated triumph after triumph as cities across the country adopted commission and city-manager charters. The cities of the Southwest were prominent in the movement for municipal reform. In this article, the author shows how the West was won to municipal reform and argues that the adoption of reform ...
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Monitoring of the Implementation of Municipal Reform [PDF]

, 2006
Within the framework of this study, we have been monitoring the development of municipal reform from the moment of the enactment of Federal Law No. 131-FZ, “On general principles of the organization of local selfgovernment in the Russian Federation”, until mid-year 2006.
Irina Starodubrovskaya, Margarita Slavgorodskaya, Nina Mironova, Alexey Khrustaliov, Harry Kitchen   +4 more
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The Continuing Saga of Municipal Reform

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1992
Governmental responses to corruption are embedded in urban politics and public administration. Rather than attempting a general theory of official corruption in local government, the authors present a case study of New York City's response to a severe corruption scandal in the late 1980s.
Frank Anechiarico, James B. Jacobs
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Municipal Reform and Group Influence

American Journal of Political Science, 1978
This study explores the relationship between municipal reform structures and group politics from a theoretical perspective new to the reform literature, one based on opportunity theory. Government structures are hypothesized to shape chief executives' strategies for remaining in office or advancing.
Alana Northrop, William H. Dutton
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Reform Retardant: Parliamentary and Municipal Reform in Beverley

1992
Abstract Analyses of boroughs such as Bristol, Northampton, and Shrewsbury have pointed to the powerful effects of Reform. Paradoxically, the indifference to Reform shown by some voters in Lewes and Great Yarmouth revealed deep partisan divisions in some constituencies well in advance of 1832.
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Municipal Reform: Status and Prospects

Journal of Russian Law, 2014
A number of questions, demanding their settlement during reform of local government, are put in the article. This refers to improvement of relationship between self-governing authorities and state authorities, explanation of the constitutional norms governing these relations.
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Reinventing Government in Reformed Municipalities

Urban Affairs Review, 2001
The authors place reinventing government (REGO) efforts in the context of mayor-council municipalities. After briefly reviewing the emerging body of local government research on reinventing government, they address two principal research questions: First, what are the correlates and extent of REGO actions by managers, mayors, and city councils? Second,
Richard C. Kearney, Carmine Scavo
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MUNICIPAL REFORM AND THE ROLE OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONS

The economy of the North-West: problems and prospects of development, 2023
The article examines the current trends in the development of Russian local self-government and the reform of its legislative framework from the point of view of the role of local self-government in solving the problems of spatial development of the economy of the country and its regions.
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