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Towards the ‘Big Society’: What role for neighbourhood working? Evidence from a comparative European study
Durose, Catherine; France, Jonathan; Lupton, Ruth; … - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2011
Under the New Labour government, the neighbourhood emerged prominently as a site for policy interventions and as a … space for civic activity, resulting in the widespread establishment of neighbourhood-level structures for decision … promoting central-to-local and local-to-community devolution of decision-making. On the other, they might be seen as layers of …
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Towards the ‘Big Society’: what role for neighbourhood working?: evidence from a comparative European study
Durose, Catherine; France, Jonathan; Lupton, Ruth; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Under the New Labour government, the neighbourhood emerged prominently as a site for policy interventions and as a … space for civic activity, resulting in the widespread establishment of neighbourhood-level structures for decision … promoting central-to-local and local-to-community devolution of decision-making. On the other, they might be seen as layers of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745473
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Infrastructure, institutions and identity : determinants of regional development : empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...
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Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic
Sila, Urban; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2020
There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of capacity at the local level reduces the quality...
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Fiscal savings of Czech municipalities : precaution or inaction of their administration?
Sedmihradská, Lucie - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 23 (2023) 3, pp. 203-216
Czech municipalities keep a substantial and growing volume of bank deposits. An analysis of determinants of unreserved deposits in 2021 suggests that municipalities are precautionary and accumulate fiscal reserves if they can and do so to stabilize their budget management. Signs of low activity...
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Local context of local government participation in the innovation networks : evidence from Poland
Godlewska, Malgorzata; Mackiewicz, Marta - In: International journal of management and economics 59 (2023) 3, pp. 243-263
Innovation networks help to create innovation ecosystems by strengthen interactions between government, academia, business, and special institutions. The purpose of the article is to identify the relationship between the local context, i.e., the conditions and environment in which the Local...
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Pricing Neighborhoods
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...
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Business Improvement Districts and Housing Markets : Evidence from Neighborhoods in London
Cellini, Stefano; Nobre, Francisco - 2023
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) represent an important place-management tool across the UK, investing more than 100 million pounds each year into street safety and other public goods provision for their local neighborhoods. This paper studies the effects of the opening of a BID on local...
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Central Control of the Local Government Sector in Sweden
Murray, Richard - 1981
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Local Authorities, Economic Stability and the Efficiency of Fiscal Policy
Nordström, Tomas; Ysander, Bengt-Christer - 1981
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335152