Comparative Local Governance

Gerry Stoker

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548460.003.0025

Comparative Local Governance

Gerry Stoker

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This article discusses comparative local governance, and shows how the study of comparative local governance has taken on a 'new' institutional slant. It examines how the systems of governance are built via a complex interplay between informal and formal institutional forces. It determines that the key area of investigation in comparative local governance is the study of regimes, which are the ways of organizing power in complex societies in order to ensure outcomes similar to particular interests. The article also explores work on urban regimes as an exemplar of a more 'new' institutionalist understanding of comparative local governance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions
Editors	Rod A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder, Bert A. Rockman
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	495–513
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191577420
ISBN (Print)	9780199548460
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548460.003.0025
Publication status	Published - 2 Sept 2009
Externally published	Yes

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