1st Edition

Financing European Local Government

Edited By Richard Batley, John Gibson Copyright 1993
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1993. This is the second of two collections devoted to the question of local government in Europe. This volume deals with the financing of local (including, where applicable, state, provincial, and regional) governments in western Europe. The eight sections bring together an unusually large number of country studies in one volume: France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, The... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Trends in Financing European Local Governments, JOHN GIBSON, RICHARD BATLEY; Chapter 2 Financial Equalisation Between Local and Regional Authorities in European Countries, PHILIP BLAIR; Chapter 3 The French Decentralisation Ten Years On: Local Government Finances, JACQUES LE CACHEUX, LAURE TOURJANSKY; Chapter 4 Local Government Finance in Germany, ROBERT BENNETT, GÜNTER KREBS; Chapter 5 British Local Government Finance under the Conservatives, JOHN GIBSON; Chapter 6 Financing Communal Government in Italy, ANGELA FRASCHINI; Chapter 7 Financial Relations between Central and Local Government in The Netherlands: Why Are They Different?, J. W. VAN DER DUSSEN; Chapter 8 Municipal Public Finance in the Nordic Countries, LASSE OULASVIRTA; Chapter 9 The Finance of Spanish Local Governments and its Recent Reform, ANGELS SANTIGOSA;

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John Gibson, Richard Batley