Local governments : a global presence / Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle, Pam Dunning -- Local electoral systems / Michael Cole -- Local political leadership : the voters or councillors : who chooses who governs? / Colin Copus -- Traditional leaders and local government in Pacific Island countries / Graham Hassall and Paul Mae -- The role of the councillor / Neil McGarvey and Fraser Stewart -- The relationship between politics and administration : from dichotomy to local governance arenas / Alessandro Sancino, Marco Meneguzzo, Alessandro Braga and Paolo Esposito -- Institutionalized differences in economic development perspectives : a comparison of city managers, mayors and council members in Texas / James Vanderleeuw and Melanie Smith -- The political salience of local government in a small state / Ann Marie Bissessar -- Local government in the Pacific Islands / Graham Hassall, Matthew Kensen, Sarah Mecartney, Rikiaua Takeke, Karibaiti Taoba and Feue Tipu -- Local government in Latin America : the struggle to overcome social exclusion / Andrew Nickson -- A turbulent past, a turbulent future? : reform and disruption in the local government of New Zealand / Michael Reid and Michael Macaulay -- Constitutional and legislative changes in Caribbean local government / Eris Schoburgh -- Local government service roles in the U.S.A : consistency and change / J. Edwin Benton -- Public entrepreneurship : is local government necessary to deliver economic development? / Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick -- The wide range of local government public services / Elisabetta Mafrolla -- Public service delivery in today's Georgia / Giorgi Vashakidze -- The provision of public and personal social services in European countries : between marketization and the return of the public/municipal and third sector / Hellmut Wollmann -- Practices and challenges of citizen participation in local government : case studies of midsized cities in Russia and the United States / Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera, Elena Gladun, Thomas Bryer, Andrey Larionov, Dmitry Teplyakov, Olga Teplyakova and Natalia Nosova -- The urban governance of austerity in Europe / Adrian Bua, Jonathan Davies, Ismael Blanco, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Steven Griggs, S. David Howarth and Yuni Salazar -- Redressing the trust deficit : local governments and citizen engagement / Jonathan Carr West -- Does mode of public outreach matter? / Sheldon Gen and Erika Luger -- Improving social development in Brazil through an open budget perspective : does collaborative stakeholder engagement matter? / Ricardo Gomes and Welles Abreu -- Civic engagement in local politics in Central Europe / Oto Potluka, Judit Kalman, Ida Musialkowska and Piotr Idczak -- Australia : challenging institutional constraints / Chris Aulich -- Local government outside local boundaries : rescaling municipalities, redesigning provinces and local-level Europeanization / Koenradd De Ceuninck, Tony Valcke and Tom Verhelst -- Local government in the European Union's multilevel polity / Marius Guderjan -- Second thoughts on second-order? : towards a second-tier model of local government elections and voting / Ulrik Kjær and Kristof Steyvers -- The architecture of the local political community : France; Italy; Portugal and Spain / Jaume Magre and Esther Pano -- Local government anti-corruption initiatives in post-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine : another tale of two cities / Terry Anderson -- Enhancing VFM audit in local government : the best value initiative / Michela Arnaboldi and Irvine Lapsley -- Financing and taxing for local government / Kenneth Gibb and Linda Christie -- Adapting to the fiscal environment : local governments, revenue and taxation powers / Mark Sandford -- Financing local government in the twenty-first century : local government revenues in European member states, 2000-2014 / Gerard Turley and Stephen McNena.
