Local autonomy has been the subject of increasing scrutiny in recent decades. The many
studies published, based on indicators on the macro level, show that local autonomy in …

Over recent decades, local governments in Europe have come increasingly under pressure
facing a multitude of new challenges, like demographic change, climate change, public debt …

The main aim of this study is to examine how the mature [con] federation of Switzerland
approaches local (municipal) governance. It first assesses whether local autonomy …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent the initiatives of local
governments to launch modernisation processes are facilitated by local autonomy, which is …

In studies on central–local relations it is common to assess local autonomy in a deductive
way. The extent of local autonomy is determined by measuring the central legal and …

After a discussion of local self-government and its measurement for Switzerland, this chapter
adopts a sectorial perspective, considering the decision-making competencies in nine tasks …

Local autonomy is a highly valued feature of good governance. The continuous efforts of
many European countries to strengthen the autonomy of local government show the …

In this chapter we attempt to create an index of local autonomy. Ideally, such an index
includes all the different aspects of local autonomy discussed in the literature and combines …

The Anatomy and Drivers of Local Autonomy in a European Perspective Page 1 85 The
Anatomy and Drivers of Local Autonomy in a European Perspective Harald Baldersheim …

In Switzerland, there are 26 systems of cantonal decentralisation because regulating
municipal autonomy is an exclusively cantonal competency. Existing measures of local …