Yerelin güçlenmesi, ulusalda toplum (devlet) güçlenmesini sağlar ve bu işbirliğinde merkez-
yerel bütünlüğü asıldır. Siyasi erk, merkezde tek karar verici ve hizmet planlayan …

Electoral participation is an important measure of the health of a liberal democracy. The
determinants of voter turnout have been examined across a range of elections, but …

In Britain, levels of political trust have declined, stimulating policy makers to explore ways of
appealing to discontented citizens. One such initiative involves reform of the political system …

I first got the idea for this book about three years ago. For some time I had wanted to explore
the links between local democracy, civic engagement and community. I had a broad idea in …

The 13 country studies presented in this book have analyzed the territorial heterogeneity of
the vote in regional and national elections with the main aim of studying regional election …

Are cities purely normtakers or (also) norm-makers? Through qualitative research it is
studied whether and how four factors determine diffusion of European norms up to everyday …

Sometimes one reads prefaces of PhD theses that refer to personal and professional
hardship. I was in the lucky position to experience neither in a form worth mentioning during …

Subject of local governments has been attracting the attention of researchers from various
disciplines in recent years. Local governments themselves and other related actors undergo …

The article assesses the constitutional reforms introduced by Great Britain's Labour Party
during its period of rule from 1997 to 2010. The author is primarily concerned with explaining …

The office of the directly elected mayor has proved popular among national politicians as a
means of modernising and strengthening local government but has proved less popular with …