The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government

Local governments : a global presence / Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle, Pam Dunning -- Local electoral systems / Michael Cole -- Local political leadership : the voters or councillors : who chooses who governs? / Colin Copus -- Traditional leaders and local government in Pacific Island countries / Graham Hassall and Paul Mae -- The role of the councillor / Neil McGarvey and Fraser Stewart -- The relationship between politics and administration : from dichotomy to local governance arenas / Alessandro Sancino, Marco Meneguzzo, Alessandro Braga and Paolo Esposito -- Institutionalized differences in economic development perspectives : a comparison of city managers, mayors and council members in Texas / James Vanderleeuw and Melanie Smith -- The political salience of local government in a small state / Ann Marie Bissessar -- Local government in the Pacific Islands / Graham Hassall, Matthew Kensen, Sarah Mecartney, Rikiaua Takeke, Karibaiti Taoba and Feue Tipu -- Local government in Latin America : the struggle to overcome social exclusion / Andrew Nickson -- A turbulent past, a turbulent future? : reform and disruption in the local government of New Zealand / Michael Reid and Michael Macaulay -- Constitutional and legislative changes in Caribbean local government / Eris Schoburgh -- Local government service roles in the U.S.A : consistency and change / J. Edwin Benton -- Public entrepreneurship : is local government necessary to deliver economic development? / Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick -- The wide range of local government public services / Elisabetta Mafrolla -- Public service delivery in today's Georgia / Giorgi Vashakidze -- The provision of public and personal social services in European countries : between marketization and the return of the public/municipal and third sector / Hellmut Wollmann -- Practices and challenges of citizen participation in local government : case studies of midsized cities in Russia and the United States / Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera, Elena Gladun, Thomas Bryer, Andrey Larionov, Dmitry Teplyakov, Olga Teplyakova and Natalia Nosova -- The urban governance of austerity in Europe / Adrian Bua, Jonathan Davies, Ismael Blanco, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Steven Griggs, S. David Howarth and Yuni Salazar -- Redressing the trust deficit : local governments and citizen engagement / Jonathan Carr West -- Does mode of public outreach matter? / Sheldon Gen and Erika Luger -- Improving social development in Brazil through an open budget perspective : does collaborative stakeholder engagement matter? / Ricardo Gomes and Welles Abreu -- Civic engagement in local politics in Central Europe / Oto Potluka, Judit Kalman, Ida Musialkowska and Piotr Idczak -- Australia : challenging institutional constraints / Chris Aulich -- Local government outside local boundaries : rescaling municipalities, redesigning provinces and local-level Europeanization / Koenradd De Ceuninck, Tony Valcke and Tom Verhelst -- Local government in the European Union's multilevel polity / Marius Guderjan -- Second thoughts on second-order? : towards a second-tier model of local government elections and voting / Ulrik Kjær and Kristof Steyvers -- The architecture of the local political community : France; Italy; Portugal and Spain / Jaume Magre and Esther Pano -- Local government anti-corruption initiatives in post-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine : another tale of two cities / Terry Anderson -- Enhancing VFM audit in local government : the best value initiative / Michela Arnaboldi and Irvine Lapsley -- Financing and taxing for local government / Kenneth Gibb and Linda Christie -- Adapting to the fiscal environment : local governments, revenue and taxation powers / Mark Sandford -- Financing local government in the twenty-first century : local government revenues in European member states, 2000-2014 / Gerard Turley and Stephen McNena

What is popular culture? / Shirley A. Fedorak -- Tourism and popular culture : socio-cultural considerations / Rodanthi Tzanelli -- Synontological spaces / Rhona Trauvitch -- Apocalypto and the end of days : basking in the Maya's shadow / O. Hugo Benavides -- The commodification of narco-violence through popular culture and tourism in Medellin, Colombia / Patrick Naef -- Popular culture tourism : films and tourist demand / Yuri Kork -- Film tourism in the golden age of television / Stefan Roesch -- Imagining the medieval in the modern world : film, fantasy and heritage / Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost -- Tuning in : setting the scene for music tourism / S.L. Bolderman and S.L. Reijnders -- Fado as a popular culture expression in the context of a tourist city / Cláudia Henriques, Manuela Guerreiro, Júlio Mendes and Célia Ramos -- Transactional bodies : dance, tourism, and idea(l)s of Cubanness / Ruxandra Ana -- The voyeur at leisure : Flanery in a miniature city : the urban phenomena of Madurodam / Maranke Wieringa -- Technology adoption and popular culture sport tourism / Azizul Hassan -- Hunters, climbers, rlaneurs : how video games create and design tourism / Nicolle Lamerichs -- The peculiar attraction of royalty for tourism and the popular culture construction of "royal tourism" / Nicola Palmer and Philip Long -- Sun, surf, sex, and the everyday : subverting the tourist gaze with Gold Coast narrative fiction / Kelly Palmer -- Fandom and its afterlife : celebrity cemetery tourism / Linda Levitt -- Passing through : popular media tourism, pilgrimage and narratives of being a fan / Lincoln Geraghty -- A Thai star's appeal to Chinese fans and its impact on Thailand popular culture tourism / L. Yong and C. Phongpanichanan -- On the road again : revisiting pop music concert tourism / Carla Schriever -- Music fans as tourists : the mysterious ways of individual and social dimensions / Maria Lexhagen -- "There were only friendly people and love in the air" : fans, tourism and the Eurovision Song Contest / Henrik Linden and Sara Linden -- The (promotional) value of public-spiritedness : Irish football fans at Euro 2016 / Neil O'Boyle-- #LiteraryMe : the legacy of the Bloomsbury Group on London's literary village / Melanie Ramdarshan Bold -- "I went to India to find myself" : tracing world cinema's neoliberal Orientalisms / Rukmini Pande -- The force meets the Kittiwake : shooting Star Wars on Skellig / Michael Ruth Barton -- The narrative capital of the place : how the millennium narratives generate place-related values and attract tourists to Sweden / Joakim Lind and Bengt K. Uggla -- A "touristed landscape" : speculations about "consuming history", using a case study of an Australian folk hero / Michael Fagence -- Spain as the scenery of mass tourism phenomena : between elite tourism and popular culture tourism : the image of the Country through Cinema and Photography / Maria-Josep Mulet Gutiérrez, Joan Carles Oliver Torelló and María Sebastián Sebastián -- Playing at home : popular culture tourism and place-making in Japan / Paul Mason and Gregory L. Rohe -- Travelling to icons or icons on travel : displacement and representation of places in movies / Burcu Kaya and Medet Yolal -- The Indianization of Switzerland : destination transformations in the wake of Bollywood films / Szilvia Gyimóthy -- Film tourism stakeholders and impacts / W. Glen Croy, Marieke Kersten, Audrey Mélinon, and David Bowen -- Film tourism collaborations : a critical analysis of INTERREG destination development projects / Lena Eskilsson and Maria Månsson -- Growing competition for screen tourists activates new destination marketing tactics / Valeriya Radomskaya -- (G)A(i)ming at the throne : social media and the use of visitor-generated content in destination marketing / Tina Segota -- The Influence of culinary movies as a popular culture tourism phenomenon in shoot destinations / Sara Forgas-Serra, Joaquim Majó Fernández and Lluís Mundet i Cerdan -- Visitor experiences of popular culture museums in islands : a management and policy approach / Nikolaos Boukas and Myria Ioannou -- Lifestyle tourism : combining place attachment and involvement in a destination management approach / Michael J. Gross -- Destination development in the wake of popular culture tourism : proposing a comprehensive analytic framework / Kristina N. Lindström

Local governments : a global presence / Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle, Pam Dunning -- Local electoral systems / Michael Cole -- Local political leadership : the voters or councillors : who chooses who governs? / Colin Copus -- Traditional leaders and local government in Pacific Island countries / Graham Hassall and Paul Mae -- The role of the councillor / Neil McGarvey and Fraser Stewart -- The relationship between politics and administration : from dichotomy to local governance arenas / Alessandro Sancino, Marco Meneguzzo, Alessandro Braga and Paolo Esposito -- Institutionalized differences in economic development perspectives : a comparison of city managers, mayors and council members in Texas / James Vanderleeuw and Melanie Smith -- The political salience of local government in a small state / Ann Marie Bissessar -- Local government in the Pacific Islands / Graham Hassall, Matthew Kensen, Sarah Mecartney, Rikiaua Takeke, Karibaiti Taoba and Feue Tipu -- Local government in Latin America : the struggle to overcome social exclusion / Andrew Nickson -- A turbulent past, a turbulent future? : reform and disruption in the local government of New Zealand / Michael Reid and Michael Macaulay -- Constitutional and legislative changes in Caribbean local government / Eris Schoburgh -- Local government service roles in the U.S.A : consistency and change / J. Edwin Benton -- Public entrepreneurship : is local government necessary to deliver economic development? / Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick -- The wide range of local government public services / Elisabetta Mafrolla -- Public service delivery in today's Georgia / Giorgi Vashakidze -- The provision of public and personal social services in European countries : between marketization and the return of the public/municipal and third sector / Hellmut Wollmann -- Practices and challenges of citizen participation in local government : case studies of midsized cities in Russia and the United States / Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera, Elena Gladun, Thomas Bryer, Andrey Larionov, Dmitry Teplyakov, Olga Teplyakova and Natalia Nosova -- The urban governance of austerity in Europe / Adrian Bua, Jonathan Davies, Ismael Blanco, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Steven Griggs, S. David Howarth and Yuni Salazar -- Redressing the trust deficit : local governments and citizen engagement / Jonathan Carr West -- Does mode of public outreach matter? / Sheldon Gen and Erika Luger -- Improving social development in Brazil through an open budget perspective : does collaborative stakeholder engagement matter? / Ricardo Gomes and Welles Abreu -- Civic engagement in local politics in Central Europe / Oto Potluka, Judit Kalman, Ida Musialkowska and Piotr Idczak -- Australia : challenging institutional constraints / Chris Aulich -- Local government outside local boundaries : rescaling municipalities, redesigning provinces and local-level Europeanization / Koenradd De Ceuninck, Tony Valcke and Tom Verhelst -- Local government in the European Union's multilevel polity / Marius Guderjan -- Second thoughts on second-order? : towards a second-tier model of local government elections and voting / Ulrik Kjær and Kristof Steyvers -- The architecture of the local political community : France; Italy; Portugal and Spain / Jaume Magre and Esther Pano -- Local government anti-corruption initiatives in post-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine : another tale of two cities / Terry Anderson -- Enhancing VFM audit in local government : the best value initiative / Michela Arnaboldi and Irvine Lapsley -- Financing and taxing for local government / Kenneth Gibb and Linda Christie -- Adapting to the fiscal environment : local governments, revenue and taxation powers / Mark Sandford -- Financing local government in the twenty-first century : local government revenues in European member states, 2000-2014 / Gerard Turley and Stephen McNena.

The Routledge handbook of popular culture and tourism- Front Cover -- The Routledge handbook of popular culture and tourism -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: beneath the trivial façade of popular culture -- Rationale and structure of the Handbook -- A final word -- References -- PART I: Setting the stage: foundations of popular culture tourism -- Chapter 1: What is popular culture? -- Defining popular culture -- Why and how we study popular culture -- Characteristics and roles of popular culture -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: Tourism and popular culture: socio-cultural considerations -- Introduction -- Modes of investigation -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Synontological spaces -- Setting the scene: synontological spaces -- Theoretical underpinnings: narratology, cognitive studies, geocriticism -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Apocalypto and the end of days: basking in the Maya's shadow -- Setting the scene: entering and re-entering the Maya region -- Disciplinary underpinnings: assessing the politics of popular culture in the Maya lands -- Implication for popular culture tourism: colonial strolls (in Merida), climbing pyramids (at Chichen Itza), and seeing the Mayas (in Apocalypto) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The commodification of narco-violence through popular culture and tourism in Medellin, Colombia -- Setting the scene: Medellin, from the most violent to the most innovative city -- Theoretical underpinnings: violence, tourism and popular culture -- Implications for popular culture tourism: the commodification of violence -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Broadening the scope: popular culture tourism expressions

The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government- Front Cover -- The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: Local governments: a global presence? -- Introduction -- What do we mean by 'local'? -- What do we mean by 'government'? -- Government or administration? -- Are local governments important? -- The structure of this book -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Elected roles and governance -- Chapter 2: Local electoral systems -- Introduction -- Electoral system themes -- Electoral systems -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Local political leadership: the voters or councillors - who chooses who governs? -- Introduction -- Developments in local political leadership: an international context -- Directly elected mayors: the English experience of reforming local political leadership -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Traditional leaders and local government in Pacific Island countries -- Introduction: 'traditional' leadership and contemporary governance -- Scope of jurisdiction -- The continuing significance of tradition in contemporary Pacific life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: The role of the councillor -- Introduction -- The fundamental role of the councillor -- Councillor activities -- Councillor workload -- Institutions, multi-level governance and parties -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The relationship between politics and administration: from dichotomy to local governance arenas -- Introduction -- The relationship between politics and administration: the dichotomy -- The relationship between politics and administration: from dichotomy to complementarity -- The relationship between politics and administration in the local governance era

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. It examines current debates, questions and controversies of tourism in the wake of popular culture phenomena and explores the relationships between popular culture, globalization, tourism and mobility. In addition, it offers a cross-disciplinary, cutting edge review of the character of popular cultural production and consumption trends, analyzing their consequences for tourism, spatial strategies and destination competitiveness. The scope of the volume encompasses various expressions of popular culture such as cinema, TV shows, music, literature, sports and heritage. Featuring a mix of theoretical and empirical chapters, the handbook problematizes and conceptualizes the ties and clusters of popular cultural actors, thereby positioning tourism within the wider context of creative economies, cultural planning and multimodal technologies. Written by an international team of academics with expertise in a range of disciplines, this timely book will be of interest to researchers from a variety of subjects including tourism, events, geography, cultural studies, fandom research, political economy, business, media studies and technology