书本目录:
  • Chapter 1: What is local autonomy?
  • Chapter 2: Measuring local autonomy
  • Chapter 3: Legal foundations
  • Chapter 4: Functional responsibilities
  • Chapter 5: Financial control
  • Chapter 6: Organisational choice
  • Chapter 7: Administrative supervision
  • Chapter 8: Vertical access
  • Chapter 9: The Local Autonomy Index (LAI)
  • Chapter 10: A new typology of local government? Beyond North-South and East-West
  • Chapter 11: Who governs? Patterns of responsiveness and accountability
  • Chapter 12: Roadmap to local autonomy? Drivers of variation
  • Chapter 13: Blessings of local autonomy? Does it matter? For what? How?
  • Chapter 14: Conclusions: Local Autonomy – patterns, dynamics and ambiguities.