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Introduction: The Relevance and Conceptualisation of Local Public Finance Regulatory Regimes -- PART I. Concepts of Regulation -- Budget Institutions for Subnational Fiscal Discipline: Local Fiscal Rules in Post-Crisis EU Countries -- Fiscal Rules at the Local Level: The Challenge of Enforcement -- Financial Supervision of Local Governments: An Organisational Hurdle -- European Patterns of Local Government Fiscal Regulation -- Local Public Finance Regulation in Southeast Europe: A Comparison of Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia -- The Impact of Fiscal Rules on the Financial Management of Municipalities: A Comparative Analysis of Czech Republic and Slovakia -- Monitoring Local Government Financial Sustainability: A Dutch–English Comparison -- The Implementation of Fiscal Regulation: Insights from Germany -- Fiscal Supervision and Party Politics – Lessons from Austria and Germany -- PART II. Bailouts and Insolvency -- Preventing Local Government Defaults: No-Bailout Policy and its Alternatives -- Municipalities and Excessive Debt – Local Insolvency Regimes as an Alternative to Bailouts? -- Four Decades of Municipal Bailouts in Germany -- 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 -- Fiscal consolidation in German and Greek Local Governments: Reform Attempts, Supervision, and Local Measures -- Financial Decisions, Intergovernmental Grants and Regulatory Instability: The Case of Italian Municipalities -- Insights from City Financial Realities: Comparing and Learning across Borders -- Taking Stock: The Role of Institutional Context for Local Government Financial Resilience -- Local Government Tax Structure.

Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing this perennial question, this volume makes the case for a governance perspective on infrastructure

Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing this perennial question, this volume-the fourth edition in an annual series tackling different aspects of governance around the world-makes the case for a governance perspective on infrastructure. This implies moving beyond rational economic analysis of what should be done towards an analysis of the political, institutional, and societal mechanisms that shape decision-making about infrastructure investment, planning, and implementation. Engaging with theories from sociology, political science, and public administration, and drawing on empirical analyses bridging OECD and non-OECD countries, the contributions to this volume dissect the logics of infrastructure governance in a novel way, providing timely analyses that will enrich both scholarly and policy debates about how to get infrastructure governance right