| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction : The relevance and conceptualisation of local finance regulatory regimes / René Geissler, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Christian Raffer -- Part I Concepts of regulation -- Budget institutions for subnational fiscal discipline : local fiscal rules in post-crisis EU countries / Gerard Turley, Christian Raffer, Stephen McNena -- Fiscal rules at the local level : the challenge of enforcement / René Geissler, Kai Wegrich -- Financial supervision of local governments: an organisational hurdle / Falk Ebinger, René Geissler -- European patterns of local government fiscal regulation / Christian Raffer, Andrés Ponce -- Local public finance regulation in Southeast Europe : a comparison of Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia / Mihaela Bronić, Jelena Jerinić, Maja Klun, Katarina Ott, Iztok Rakar -- The impact of fiscal rules on the financial management of municipalities : a comparative analysis of Czech Republic and Slovakia / Juraj Nemec, Daniel Klimovský, Vladimir Šagát, Michal Plaček, Lucie Sedmihradská -- Monitoring local government financial sustainability : a Dutch-English comparison / Dennis De Widt, Tim Thorogood, Iolo Llewelyn -- The implementation of fiscal regulation : insights from Germany / Christian Person, Falk Ebinger, Steffen Zabler -- Fiscal supervision and party politics : lessons from Austria and Germany / Felix Roesel -- Part II : Bailouts and insolvency -- Preventing local government defaults : no-bailout policy and its alternatives / Maarten Adriaan Allers, Joes Gordon de Natris -- Municipalities and excessive debt : local insolvency regimes as an alternative to bailouts? / Christian Person -- Four decades of municipal bailouts in Germany / Christian Person, René Geissler -- Part III : Local public finance in times of crisis -- Global crisis, local impact : a comparative approach to the financial crisis' impacts on European local levels / Marcus Wortmann, René Geissler -- Fiscal consolidation in German and Greek local governments : reform attempts, supervision and local measures / Maria-Artemis Kolliniati, Philipp Stolzenberg, Nikolaos-Komninos Hleppas -- Financial decisions, intergovernmental grants and regulatory instability : the case of Italian municipalities / Emanuele Padovani, Céline Du Boys -- Insights from city financial realities : comparing and learning across borders / Alexander Heichlinger, Julia Bosse, Emanuele Padovani -- Taking stock : the role of the institutional context for local government financial resilience / Iris Saliterer, Sanja Korac, Carmela Barbera, Ileana Steccolini -- Local government tax structure / Viktor Trasberg, Christian Raffer, Antti Moisio |
| Summary |
"This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries. It analyzes both the regimes and the practices of local fiscal regulation in 21 European countries. The book brings together key findings of this research project. The regulatory discussion is not limited to the prominent issue of fiscal rules but focuses on every component of regulation. Beyond this, the book covers affiliated topics such as the impact of regulation for local governments, evolution of regulation, administrative costs and crisis prevention. The various book chapters throughout provide a broad picture of local public finance regulation in theory and in practice, using different theoretical and national lenses for the analysis. Furthermore, the authors investigate the effects of budgetary constraints and higher-level regulatory efforts on local governments and on democracy and public services in every European country. This book fills a gap with respect to the lack of discussion on local government finance from an international, comparative perspective and, in particular, the regulation of local public finance. With its mix of authors, this book will be useful for practitioners as well as for scholars and for theory-driven research"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed August 15, 2022) |
| Subject |
Local finance -- Law and legislation -- Europe
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Local finance -- Law and legislation
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Geissler, René, editor.
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Hammerschmid, Gerhard, editor.
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Raffer, Christian, editor
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| ISBN |
9783030674663 |
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3030674665 |
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