Research Catalog

Title

Local politics, development, and participation : a cross-national study of interrelationships / edited by F.C. Bruhns, F. Cazzola, and J. Wiatr.

Publication

Pittsburg, Pa. : University Center for International Studies, [1974]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bruhns, F. C.
• Cazzola, Franco
• Wiatr, Jerzy J.
• International Political Science Association. Research Committee on the Comparative Study of Local Government and Politics.

Description

xv, 329 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Local government > Congresses
• Political participation > Congresses
• Local government
• Political participation

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "A collection of papers from the first international round table of the Research Committee on the Comparative Study of Local Government and Politics, International Political Science Association."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [307]-329.

Contents

• Patterns of Public Participation in Local Politics: The role of industry in local politics: the position of a group of Italian industrial directors -- The party worker and the elector in British local politics -- Participation in a major city: some aspects of turnout in greater London -- Participation and community structure -- Citizen participation in local politics in Yugoslav communes -- Ecology and local politics: a citizen movement in Japan -- Public participation in local politics in India -- Development and participation.
• Local Decision-Making and Socio-Economic Development: Some results of a research on the cultural politics of local bodies in Italy -- Patron-client relationships in southern Italy -- The effects of central finance on the British local government system -- Decision-making process in the Polish local political system -- Decentralization for development: a lost cause? -- Policy output and impact: a proposal for a general systems approach to public policy analysis.
• Perspectives for Cross-National Study of Local Politics: Local decision-making, public participation and socio-economic development: a proposal for cross-national study -- Community power, political participation, and socio-economic development: a review of Italian studies and some suggestions for comparative research -- Basic trends of international studies on the public participation in local power -- On the threshold of international research on local power -- Premises for a design of cross-national research in local politics.

LCCN

74193333

OCLC

• ocm01130411
• 1130411
• SCSB-126111

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library