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Reconsidering Rationales for Local Self-Government - Impacts of Contemporary Changes in Local Decision-Making

Lyngstad, Rolv
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2010
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Lyngstad, R. (2010). Reconsidering rationales for local self-government - impacts of contemporary changes in local decision-making. Lex Localis, 8(1), 93-113. doi: 10.4335/8.1.93-113(2010)   10.4335/8.1.93-113(2010)
Abstract
This paper discusses two contemporary trends in local

decision-making. Firstly, there seems to be more centralised decisionmaking

today than before in important policy fields such as welfare

policy. Secondly, informal governance processes outside formal

government structures open up for a substantial influence from nonelected

political actors. The paper asserts that there is a connection

between the trends, and argues that the centralisation tendencies in

welfare issues might affect and encourage governance processes in

other local policy arenas. These policy fields are mainly within the socalled

‘developmental policies’ that often facilitate more networking

and partnership activities in ‘grey areas’ between the public, private and

civil sectors in collective problem solving. Accordingly, more attention

should be given to policy fields where governance networks operate,

and the implications for revitalising democratic political participation

should be studied. The paper concludes that the well-established

rationales for local self-government and local democracy need to be

reconsidered by taking into account these new decision-making

structures.
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Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement, Maribor
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Lex Localis
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© 2010, Lex Localis

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