Strangled in structures. An institutional analysis of innovative policy by Dutch municipalities
This study deals with municipal strategies in the Netherlands. It tries to identify municipal strategies, tries to establish whether certain comibnations of strategies are bound to certain types of municipalities and tries to establish the role
and meaning of the institutional arrangements as a condition for innovative policy under fiscal austerity in the 1980s. - (AGD)
Neighbourhoods and municipalities as contextual opportunities for interethnic contact
Behaviour ; Germans ; Germany ; Household ; Municipality ; Neighbourhood ; Neighbourhood effect ; Public space ; Social geography ; Urban area
This article investigates consequences of spatial contexts (neighbourhood and municipality levels) on interethnic contact from a native’s perspective using a German nation-wide dataset. Ethnic concentration is the strongest contextual predictor
for all kinds of interethnic contact. Physical contact opportunities in the immediate neighbourhood fos-ter interethnic contact in the neighbourhood only, while municipality size mostly diminishes inter-ethnic contact.
[b1] Dept. of Socio-cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Allemagne
Educational level ; Firm ; Income ; Local population ; Municipality ; Sweden
regular entry were similar to those influencing surviving entry. Substantially, more entry occurred in municipalities with high-income and a well-educated population. The importance of the level of education appears stronger for surviving entrants than
Changes in the chemism of the waters of the Łabuńka river catchment under the influence of municipal and industrial wastewater
In the years 1989-1992, river water samples for physicochemical analyses were taken at 9 points of the Łabuńka river catchment up-stream of the gauging station of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMWM) in Krzak. These show
differentiation in hydrochemical features controlled by the lithology of the bedrock. Particular consideration was given to changes caused by municipal wastewater from Zamość Basin, Eastern Poland.
Reluctant cities, colonias and municipal underbounding in the US : Can cities be convinced to annex poor enclaves?
This paper focuses on the municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas through the examples of three cities or colonias in Imperial County, California: Calexico, El Centro, and the City of Imperial
to be an important concern in annexations and the literature’s call for regional approaches and institutional reforms is supported.
Chile ; Citizenship ; Municipality ; Participatory democracy ; Political geography ; Public policy ; Santiago ; citizen ; local ; municipalities ; participation ; policies
L’A. étudie les attentes que soulèvent la modernisation et la décentralisation des institutions du Chili en matière de participation directe des citoyens. Il démontre de quelle manière les politiques peuvent être améliorées afin de mieux les
, and the municipalities play an important role in this development. As a result, there are expectations of policies for participation that direct the concerns of citizens with respect to public policies at a local level. Similar to other states in Latin America, Chile
enjoys policies that could be perfected in an effort to achieve better integration and synergy among them, especially in the municipalities. This article presents arguments and evidence in the case of Chile in respect of mechanisms of participation
, associative life and confidence in the municipalities, as well as proposing ways to perfect public policies for local participation.
Women's shelters and municipalities in Turkey : between solidarity and benevolence
Anthropologie sociale ; Centre d'hébergement ; Collectivité locale ; Femme ; Féminisme ; Institution ; Service social ; Turquie ; Violence
Feminism ; Institution ; Local government unit ; Social anthropology ; Social service ; Turkey ; Violence ; Woman
, on pourrait dire qu'il n'est pas possible de les examiner comme des structures féministes mais plutôt comme des institutions bureaucratiques, car la majorité d'entre eux sont établis dans le cadre administratif des municipalités ou bien des services sociaux
Impact ; Municipality ; Rural area ; Rural development ; Slovenia
On the basis of the first Local Self-Government Act (1993) and the Establishment of Municipalities and Municipal Boundaries Act (1994), 147 municipalities were created in 1994, till 2002 their number increased to 193. Most of the newly-founded
municipalities were small, including municipalities that did not meet the conditions stipulated by law. Consequently, there have been many discussions on the efficiency of such municipalities and the reasonableness of any further division of Slovenia. In 2005, 95
municipalities had less than 5 000 inhabitants, which is the legally prescribed thereshold for the establishment of a municipality. Therefore, all these municipalities were surveyed and an assessment of their impact on the development of rural areas in Slovenia
Classification ; Local government unit ; Municipality ; Regional planning ; Slovenia ; Typology
Spatial planning is one of the major legal duties for Slovenian municipalities. Thirteen indicators were defined and data were collected with the help of a questionnaire and secondary sources. These indicators were then used to produce the typology
of management capacity in the field of planning. We also tested whether the size and spatial characteristics of a municipality affected the final result of this classification. Fifty-five municipalities were classified into three groups. - (L'A.).
Volunteer organizations : odds or obstacle for small business formation in rural areas? Evidence from Swiss municipalities
Community ; Economic sector ; Firm ; Firm creation ; Local development ; Municipality ; Peripheral region ; Rural economy ; Small and medium-sized firms ; Social capital ; Switzerland
[b1] Environmental and Resource Economics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Suisse
[b2] Regional Economics and Development, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Suisse
Allemagne ; Chine ; Emploi ; Famille ; Flux migratoire ; Genre ; Inde ; Institution ; Migration de travail ; Migration internationale ; Mobilité ; Qualification professionnelle ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Stratégie de carrière ; Suède ; Universitaire
China ; Employment ; Family ; Gender ; Germany ; India ; Institution ; International migration ; Labour migration ; Migratory flow ; Mobility ; Professional qualification ; Role of the State ; Sweden
Dans cette partie consacrée aux instutions et à la mobilité des personnes qualifiées, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-Transnational spaces ‘from above’ – The role of institutions in promoting highly skilled labour migration from India
to Sweden ; 2-Career strategies and spatial mobility among skilled migrants in Germany: the role of gender in the work-family interaction ; 3-A warm welcome to highly-skilled migrants: how can municipal administrations play their part? ; 4-‘Academic mobility
The contribution discusses possibilities of evaluation of successibility of rural municipalities and conditions of their further development. Main goal is to identify individual criteria of successibility of rural municipalities. Nowadays
there are more than 5,000 of rural municipalities searching for different possibilities of development in Czechia. While some municipalities have concentrated on building of specific types of technical infrastructure e.g. gas pipes, water pipes and sewerages
, others are oriented to the appearence and arrangement of public areas. Either gaining further subsidy or investment, development of public infrastructure, an increase of number of inhabitants at a municipality from another point of view can be understand
ae success when evaluating successibility of rural municipalities.- (BJ).
Urban municipalities versus rural municipalities - selected aspects of quality of life in Slovakia
element with the negative impact on the great differences in quality of life between inhabitants of urban and rural municipalities. Urban municipalities represent the peripheral ones. The aim of this study is to describe, analyse, and compare
the population structures and material level of life quality in urban and rural municipalities aggregated into eight administrative regions. Regional aggregation allows us to identify and then to explain the relevant regional differences in Slovakia according
to selected aspects of life quality in urban and rural municipalities. - (BJ)
Community and municipalism : collective identity in late-Victorian and Edwardian mining towns
intermédiaires, de la structure des institutions locales. Débat sur le processus de « définition d'une communauté », ou établissement d'une identité collective locale.