Local Governments and Their Intergovernmental Networks in Federalizing Spain.
- 1st ed.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Autonomous Intergovernmental Spain -- 2 Local Governments in Intergovernmental Processes -- 3 Building Federal Spain: The Autonomous Communities -- 4 Integrating Local Governments into the State of Autonomies -- 5 Intergovernmental Financing: The Ties that Bind -- 6 Intergovernmental Politics and Actions -- 7 International-Intergovernmental Dimensions -- 8 Policy Networks in Local Government: Three Case Studies -- 9 Reform and the Challenges of Urban Governing -- 10 Accomplishments and Challenges -- Appendices -- A: 1977-2005: A Post-Franco Intergovernmental Chronology: Events, Actions and Agreements -- B: Notable Changes to Law 7/1985 -- C: Major Changes to Local Financing Law -- D: LRAU: Explained by a Spanish Lawyer -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Spain has been changing its institutional framework in important ways over the past thirty years. The country has gone from a dictatorship to a democracy, from a unitary state to a decentralized one, from authoritarian politics to a self-conscious, civil society with a developed welfare state within a European context.
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