Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development : Governing Leaders in Seven European Countries
- المؤلف
- Stefan Szücs, Lars Strömberg
- سنة النشر
- 2006
- الناشر
- Springer
- لغة الملف
- انكليزي
- نوع الملف
- Book
- تصنيف الكتاب
- Social Science
- تحميل الكتاب قراءة الكتاب
This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know a great deal about the general importance of civil society and social capital for the development of sustainable democracy, we still know little about what specific local governing qualities or political capital that interact with democratic development. The collected data covers time series of surveys from between 15 to 30 political and administrative leaders in over a hundred middle-sized European and Eurasian cities. The study takes us across the 1980s and 1990s, going from cities in Sweden and the Netherlands - through the Baltic cities - to the cities of Belarus and Russia.
الكلمات المفتاحية: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Europe / Governance / Democracy / Development / Local-global relations / Networks / Stability / State / Values
