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Vertical Governance, National Regulation and Autonomy of Local Policy Making

Pascal CaillaudMarjo Kuronen

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Czechmedia_common.quotation_subjectCorporate governanceLifelong learningContext (language use)Space (commercial competition)language.human_language[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LawCategorizationPolitical sciencelanguageEconomic systemWelfareAutonomymedia_common

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International audience; This chapter introduces a categorization of the 11 European countries according to their general vertical governance structures between national, regional and local levels in welfare policy making. It investigates the extent to which, and how, local policies and service provision are regulated and controlled from the national state level, and how much space this leaves for local policy actors in welfare policy formation. The analysis takes into account that local welfare policies are formulated in the context of national and to some extent international policies. The 11 countries can be divided into three groups, having a centralized (England, Ireland), multi-level (Italy, Spain, France, Germany) or decentralized (Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Hungary, the Czech Republic) vertical governance system. More detailed analysis of different policy fields shows that vertical governance between territorial levels differs from one sector to another.

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2015-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16163-1_5