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1. Local Governments - A Global Presence [Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle, Pam Dunning]

Part I: Elected Roles and Governance
2. Local Electoral Systems [Michael Cole]
3. Local Political Leadership: The Voters or Councillors ? Who Chooses Who Governs? [Colin Copus]
4. Traditional Leaders and Local Government in Pacific Island Countries [Graham Hassall and Paul Mae]
5. The Role of the Councillor [Neil McGarvey and Fraser Stewart]
6. The Relationship between Politics and Administration: From Dichotomy to Local Governance Arenas [Alessandro Sancino, Marco Meneguzzo, Alessandro Braga, and Paolo Esposito]
7. Institutionalized Differences in Economic Development Perspectives: A Comparison of City Managers, Mayors and Council Members in Texas [James Vanderleeuw and Melanie Smith]

Part II: Local Governments in Different Jurisdictions
8. The Political Salience of Local Government in a Small State [Ann Marie Bissessar]
9. Local Government in the Pacific Islands [Graham Hassall, Matthew Kensen, Rikiaua Takeke, Karibaiti Taoba, and Feue Tipu]
10. Local Government in Latin America ? The Struggle to Overcome Social Exclusion [Andrew Nickson]
11. A Turbulent Past, A Turbulent Future? Reform and Disruption in the Local Government of New Zealand [Michael Reid and Michael Macaulay]
12. Constitutional and Legislative Changes in Caribbean Local Government [Eris Schoburgh]

Part III: Range of Local Government Services
13. Local Government Service Roles in the U. S. A: Consistency and Change [J. Edwin Benton]
14. Public Entrepreneurship: Is Local Government Necessary to Deliver Economic Development? [Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick]
15. The Wide Range of Local Government Public Services [Elisabetta Mafrolla]
16. Public Service Delivery in Today?s Georgia [Giorgi Vashakidze]
17. The Provision of Public and Personal Social Services in European Countries: Between Marketization and The Return of the Public/Municipal and Third Sector [Hellmut Wollmann]

Part IV: Citizen Engagement
18. Practices and Challenges of Citizen Participation in Local Government: Case Studies of Midsized Cities in Russia and the United States [Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera, Elena Gladun, Thomas Bryer, Andrey Larionov, Dmitry Teplyakov, Olga Teplyakova and Natalia Nosova]
19. The Urban Governance of Austerity in Europe [Adrian Bua, Jonathan Davies, Ismael Blanco, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Merc?ortina-Oriol, Andr?Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Steven Griggs, S. David Howarth, and Yuni Salazar]
20. Redressing the Trust Deficit: Local Governments and Citizen Engagement [Jonathan Carr West]
21. Does Mode of Public Outreach Matter? [Sheldon Gen and Erika Luger]
22. Improving Social Development in Brazil through an Open Budget Perspective: Does Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement Matter? [Ricardo Gomes and Welles Abreu]
23. Civic Engagement in Local Politics in Central Europe [Oto Potluka, Judit Kalman, Ida Musia?kowska, and Piotr Idczak]

Part V: Multi-Level Governance
24. Australia: Challenging Institutional Constraints [Chris Aulich]
25. Local Government Outside Local Boundaries: Rescaling Municipalities, Redesigning Provinces and Local-Level Europeanization [Koenradd De Ceuninck, Tony Valcke and Tom Verhelst]
26. Local Government in the European Union?s Multilevel Polity [Marius Guderjan]
27. Second Thoughts on Second-Order? Towards a Second-Tier Model of Local Government Elections and Voting [Ulrik Kj?and Kristof Steyvers]
28. The Architecture of the Local Political Community: France; Italy; Portugal and Spain [Jaume Magre and Esther Pano]

Part VI: Getting and Spending
29. Local Government Anti-Corruption Initiatives in Post-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine: Another Tale of Two Cities [Terry Anderson]
30. Enhancing VFM Audit in Local Government: The Best Value Initiative [Michela Arnaboldi and Irvine Lapsley]
31. Financing and Taxing for Local Government [Kenneth Gibb and Linda Christie]
32. Adapting to the Fiscal Environment: Local Governments, Revenue and Taxation Powers [Mark Sandford]
33. Financing Local Government in the Twenty-First Century: Local Government Revenues in European Member States, 2000 ? 2014 [Gerard Turley and Stephen McNena]