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Strategic Changes and Organizational Reorientations in Local Government

A Cross-National Perspective

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  • © 1996

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  1. Nahum Ben-Elia
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Part of the book series: Policy Studies Organization Series (PSOS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nahum Ben-Elia
    Pages 1-20

  3. Small is Innovative: Local Government Innovation Strategies in the United States and Other Countries

    • Terry Nichols Clark
    Pages 21-39

  4. The Learning Local Authority: British Local Authorities in the Post-Thatcherite Era

    • Michael Clarke, John Stewart
    Pages 41-56

  5. Free Communes, Pilots, and Pathfinders: A New Vocabulary of Local Government Reforms in Scandinavian Countries — The Case of Norway

    • Harald Baldersheim, Per Stava
    Pages 57-74

  6. Organizational Reorientation and Learning in Israeli Local Government: The Role of Market Type Mechanisms

    • Nahum Ben-Elia
    Pages 75-89

  7. An Overview of Planning and Political Problems for Canadian Urban Municipalities in the 1990s

    • James Lightbody
    Pages 91-108

  8. Rupture and Transformation: Local Government in East Germany

    • Hellmut Wollmann
    Pages 109-123

  9. ‘Reinventing’ Local Government: The Czech Case

    • Olga Vidlakova
    Pages 125-134

  10. Russia: The Reinvention of Local Government?

    • Adrian Campbell
    Pages 135-157

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 159-160
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Global, national and subnational change (political, economic, social and demographic) are forcing local governments to search, reactively or proactively, for alternative organizational patterns and management styles. This book explores different approaches toward local government reorientation in selected Western countries as well as the 'reinvention' of local government in Eastern Europe. Eight national case-studies (U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Norway, Israel, the Czech Republic and Russia) provide the empirical basis. From a theoretical point of view, the book exposes three main critical factors: the range of policy options facing local governments (strategic choice), their organizational capabilities to cope with major environmental shifts (strategic capabilities), and their capacity for organizational learning (including programmed experimentation, innovation and creativity).

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