European Integration and Local Government

Edited by M.J.F. Goldsmith, Professor Emeritus, University of Salford, UK and Kurt Klaudi Klausen, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

European Integration and Local Government is an original comparative review of the impact of the European Union on local and regional governments throughout Europe.

‘The book is good reading for an audience adhering to the still rare mixture of the combined specialization in local government and European affairs.’
– Theo A.J. Toonen, Public Administration

‘. . . it provides a useful benchmark for local authorities to work out where they are on the European map and is useful in raising key conceptual issues that practitioners may not have time to ask themselves.’
– European Information Service

‘European Integration and Local Government admirably fills a major gap in the knowledge. The country studies are all excellent, meeting the criteria of clarity and comprehensiveness.’
– Peter John, Local Government Studies

‘The editors of this volume are to be commended for the extent to which they have managed to maintain control over their contributors’ efforts because this has ensured a degree of coherence which is often not achieved by edited books. This is a timely and valuable effort.’
– Howard Elcock, Regional and Federal Studies