Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems: A Comparative Legal Study in the Federal-Local Connection

In: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 108

Abstract

Comparing and Contrasting Local Government in Multi-Layered Systems -- Part I - The Federal-local Connection in Mature Federations -- The US Local Government Organisation: Origins, Development, and Federal Implications -- Local Governments in the Canadian Federal System – Institutions, Jurisdiction and Cooperation -- Local Governance in the Swiss Federal System. Comparative and Alternative Approaches to the Traditional Paradigm -- Local Governments in Germany between Growing Challenges and Precarious Budgets -- Local Government in Australia: Constitutionally Subordinate, but Vibrant and Fundamental -- Local Governance in Austria: Diversity in Homogeneity -- Part II - The Federal-Local Connection in Devolutionary Federations -- The Municipal Regime in Argentina -- The Municipality in the Mexican Federal System -- Local Governance in Belgium: A Taste of 'Institutional Lasagna' Belgian Style -- Local Governance in Brazil: The Unresolved Contradiction between Claims to Autonomy and Centripetal Trends -- The System of Local Government in Italy: A Stress-Test to Traditional Paradigms? -- Local Autonomy in Spain: Between Autonomic Jurisdictions and the Central Level of Government -- Local Government in the United Kingdom -- Federalism, Local Government, and Transition to Authoritarianism in Russia -- 'Everything is Bridgeable' in a Post-Conflict Situation? The Situation of Local Government in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Part III - Postcolonial Reinventions of the Federal-Local Connection -- The Federal-Local Connection: The South African Case -- Autonomy of Local Government in Ethiopia -- Local Governments, Federalism, and the Governance of Public Health in India -- Reconceptualising the Federal-Local Connection. Postcolonial Reinventions. Nigeria -- The Legal Framework of Centre-Local Connections in Malaysia. Beyond the Postcolonial Narrative: Legacy or Reinvention? -- Revisiting Taxonomies: Local Governance Beyond Western Federal Systems.