Cities in times of crisis : fiscal consolidation in Germany and Greece / / Philipp Stolzenberg [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910150384003321
• Autore: Stolzenberg Philipp
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baden-Baden, Germany : , : Nomos, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-8452-6551-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustration, tables
• Disciplina: 336.01443
• Soggetti: Municipal budgets - Germany; Municipal finance - Germany; Municipal budgets - Greece; Fiscal policy - Germany; Fiscal policy - Greece; Municipal finance - Greece; Case studies.; Germany; Greece
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: ; 1. Introduction -- ; 2. Theoretical framework and research design -- ; 2.1. Theoretical Framework -- ; 2.1.1. Actor-centered institutionalism -- ; 2.1.2. Interplay of leadership and legitimacy -- ; 2.1.3. Interpretive policy analysis: After the argumentative turn in policy analysis -- ; 2.1.4. Complementary approach -- ; 3. Methodology and research design -- ; 3.1. Empirical approach: Methods and tools of qualitative research -- ; 3.2. Case selection with filter criteria -- ; 4. Germany and Greece: Political systems and local government in comparison -- ; 4.1. State traditions, models of democracy, political cultures, policy styles and welfare regimes -- ; 4.2. Local Government type, financial autonomy and municipal reforms -- ; 4.3. Fiscal challenges and their explanation -- ; 4.4. Municipal fiscal consolidation policy -- ; 4.5. Supervision and ; control -- ; 4.5.1. Legal basis and organizational structure -- ; 4.5.2. Fiscal rules and the mechanism of supervision in fiscal policies -- ; 4.5.3. Practice of supervision -- ; 5. Greece -- ; 5.1. Framing conditions and fiscal consolidation measures -- ; 5.1.1. Socioeconomic conditions -- ; 5.1.2. Political actor constellation -- ; 5.1.3. Fiscal Challenges -- ; 5.2. Local perceptions and debates on fiscal measures and challenges -- ; 5.2.1. Problem perceptions and causes -- ; 5.2.2. Perceptions of fiscal consolidation measures -- ; 5.2.3. Local debates -- ; 5.3. Conclusions -- ; 6. Germany -- ; 6.1. Framework conditions and measures of fiscal consolidation -- ; 6.1.1. Socioeconomic conditions -- ; 6.1.2. Political actor constellation -- ; 6.1.3. Fiscal challenges -- ; 6.2. Local perceptions and debate on fiscal challenges and measures -- ; 6.2.1. Problem perceptions and causes -- ; 6.2.2. Perceptions of measures of fiscal consolidation -- ; 6.2.3. Local debates -- ; 6.3. Conclusion -- ; 7. Comparative findings -- ; 7.1. The implementation of supervision and control: comparative findings -- ; 7.1.1. Actor constellations -- ; 7.1.2. Perceptions -- ; 7.1.3. Practices -- ; 7.1.4. Conclusions -- ; 7.2. The interplay between leadership and legitimacy -- ; 7.1.1. Leadership and legitimacy nexus -- ; 7.2.2. Empirical assessment of leadership styles -- ; 7.2.2.1. Dimension of leadership orientation -- ; 7.2.2.2. Dimension of Exercise of Power -- ; 7.2.2.3. Leadership styles -- ; 7.2.2. Dimensions of legitimacy: The influence of leadership style -- ; 7.2.2.1. Input-legitimacy -- ; 7.2.2.2. Throughput-legitimacy -- ; 7.2.2.3. Output-legitimacy -- ; 7.2.3. Conclusion -- ; 7.3. Local debates: The specificity of city discourses -- ; 7.3.1. Causes and origins of the problem -- ; 7.3.2. The debates on the measures -- ; 7.3.3. Types of local debates -- ; 7.4. Politicians and administrators in times of fiscal stress -- ; 7.4.1. Functional differentiation between politicians and administration -- ; 7.4.2. Fiscal consolidation and municipal staff -- ; 7.4.3. Towards a new relation between politics and administration in Greek municipalities? -- ; 8. Conclusions -- ; 8.1. Institutional and national contexts -- ; 8.2. Actor-related factors, city specificity and local debates -- ; 8.3. Reformability of Cities: crisis as opportunity?.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book is about Greek and German cities in times of crisis. It is about how cities respond to fiscal and economic crisis and whether they can make choices under fiscal stress and austrerity policies imposed by higher levels of government. By using a complementary approach, the authors focus on the fiscal policies in ten different cities. The authors suggest a fusion of different apporaches: actor centered institutionalism, leadership approaches and interpretive approaches. They use a qualitative document analysis and statistical data in order to present a full picture of the selected cities"--Publisher's description.