Giving Citizens More Say in Local Government: Comparative Analyses of Change Across Europe in Times of Crisis

Angelika Vetter; Daniel Klimovsky; Sebastianus A.H. Denters; Norbert Kersting

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52548-2_15

Giving Citizens More Say in Local Government: Comparative Analyses of Change Across Europe in Times of Crisis

Angelika Vetter, Daniel Klimovsky, Sebastianus A.H. Denters, Norbert Kersting

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The authors show how institutions for citizen participation in European local government have changed from 1990 until today. Relying on data from an expert survey and focusing on the right of free access to information, the direct election of mayors, and binding local referenda, the authors discover a clear trend of democratic renewal in European local politics. However, the trend is not uniform. The authors also offer some interpretations for the pattern of change they found: Democratic reforms are the result of domestic political factors. But as diffusion theory suggests, the reforms are also externally determined by factors like coercion, learning, and imitation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis: National Trajectories and International Comparisons
Editors	Sabine Kuhlmann, Geert Bouckaert
Pages	273-286
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52548-2_15
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Vetter, A., Klimovsky, D., Denters, S. A. H., & Kersting, N. (2016). Giving Citizens More Say in Local Government: Comparative Analyses of Change Across Europe in Times of Crisis. In S. Kuhlmann, & G. Bouckaert (Eds.), Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis: National Trajectories and International Comparisons (pp. 273-286). (Governance and public management). https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52548-2_15

Vetter, Angelika ; Klimovsky, Daniel ; Denters, Sebastianus A.H. ; Kersting, Norbert. / Giving Citizens More Say in Local Government: Comparative Analyses of Change Across Europe in Times of Crisis. Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis: National Trajectories and International Comparisons. editor / Sabine Kuhlmann ; Geert Bouckaert. 2016. pp. 273-286 (Governance and public management).

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Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis: National Trajectories and International Comparisons. ed. / Sabine Kuhlmann; Geert Bouckaert. 2016. p. 273-286 (Governance and public management).

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