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Towards the self-regulating municipality : free communes and administrative modernization in Scandinavia

Title: Towards the self-regulating municipality : free communes and administrative modernization in Scandinavia / edited by Harald Baldersheim and Krister Ståhlberg.
Publication: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Dartmouth Pub. Co., ©1994.

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vi, 232 pages; 23 cm

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Contents

Introduction: From top-down to bottom-up: free communes and the politics of administrative modernization / Harald Baldersheim and Krister Stahlberg -- The Swedish case: political change and administrative resistance / Lars Stromberg and Lena Lindgren -- The Danish case: rational or political change? / Erik Alboek -- The Norwegian case: an experiment in bottom-up learning / Harald Baldersheim and Anne Lise Fimreite -- The Finnish case: a reform rather than an experiment / Krister Stahlberg -- New roles in political and administrative leadership in Norwegian local government / Oddbjorn Bukve and Terje P. Hagen -- Deregulation and decentralization in the Swedish free commune experiment / Kai Kronvall -- Free commune experiments: a new organizational culture in Finnish municipalities? / Risto Harisalo and Vuokko Niiranen -- Local economic development -- lessons from the free commune experiment / Jon Helge Lesjo -- A case of self-regulation -- the city of Hameenlinna / Krister Stahlberg.
The management of organizational change in local government: methods and results / Lawrence Rose -- Conclusions: Vitalization from below: towards the self-regulating municipality. Comparative notes on the Nordic free commune experiments / Harald Baldersheim and Krister Stahlberg.

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94021306

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Princeton University Library