Sinopsis
Part I: Assessing and Measuring Local Autonomy
Chapter 1: What is local autonomy?
Chapter 2: Measuring local autonomy
Part II: Towards the Local Autonomy Index
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)
Part III: The Local Autonomy Index as tool for comparative analysis
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
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