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Local Elites, Polit...
Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development: Governing Leaders in Seven European Countries
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- Szücs, Stefan, 1964 (editor)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,Centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (CEFOS),Department of Political Science,Center for Public Sector Research (CEFOS)
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- Strömberg, Lars, 1937 (editor)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (CEFOS),Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,Center for Public Sector Research (CEFOS),Department of Political Science
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- ISBN 3531150596
- Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Springer (Vol 9 Urban and Regional Research International), 2006
- English.
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- This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know a great deal about the general importance of civil society and social capital for the development of sustainable democracy, we still know little about what specific local governing qualities or political capital that interact with democratic development. The collected data covers time series of surveys from between 15 to 30 political and administrative leaders in over a hundred middle-sized European and Eurasian cities. The study takes us across the 1980s and 1990s, going from cities in Sweden and the Netherlands - through the Baltic cities - to the cities of Belarus and Russia. The findings show the importance of local political capital based on commitments to core democratic values, informal governance networks, and the significance of initially connecting the community to global, non-economic relationships.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Studier av offentlig förvaltning (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Public Administration Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
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- political capital
- local elites
- democracy
- development
- local-global relations
- networks
- democratic values
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- sam (subject category)
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