PRACTICING LOCAL GOVERNANCE:NORTHERN PERSPECTIVES -- PRACTICING LOCAL GOVERNANCE:NORTHERN PERSPECTIVES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND THE CHALLENGES OFGLOBAL CHANGE -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS -- GOVERNANCE - AN ANALYTICAL RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATIONAND DEMOCRACY -- PART 1: LOCAL GOVERNANCE BY MULTILEVEL GOVERNMENT -- PART 2: LOCAL GOVERNANCE BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- PART 3: LOCAL GOVERNANCE BY NETWORKS -- PART 4: LOCAL GOVERNANCE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT -- PART 1:LOCAL GOVERNANCE BY MULTILEVELGOVERNANCE -- FROM LOCAL AUTONOMY TO POWERVERTICAL IN RUSSIA -- INTRODUCTION -- MUNICIPAL REFORMS OF THE 1990S: REGIONALIZATION ANDPARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM -- COUNTER-REFORMS OF THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY:SUBORDINATION AND UNIFICATION -- ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK? -- CONCLUSION: WHAT COMES NEXT? -- LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN RURAL NOVA SCOTIA -- THE RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF CHESTER12 -- THE TOWN OF PARRSBORO15 -- THE RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF SHELBURNE20 -- THE RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF VICTORIA26, 27 -- DISCUSSION29 -- REGIONAL-MUNICIPAL RELATIONSHIP:THE CASE OF KIROVSK MUNICIPALITY -- INTRODUCTION -- REGIONAL POLICIES TOWARDS MUNICIPALITIES IN THEMURMANSK REGION -- Regional Legislative and Strategic Documents Regulating Regional-Municipal Relations -- Administrative Bodies Conducting Regional Policies Towards Municipalities -- Regional-Municipal Budgetary Relations -- Tripartite Agreements on Socio-Economic Partnership -- THE MUNICIPALITY OF KIROVSK -- The Place and Population -- Economy and Employment -- LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND THE BUDGETARYPROCESS IN KIROVSK -- Legislation and Administration -- Planning and Budgeting -- The Influence of the Company in Municipal Governance -- REGIONAL-MUNICIPAL RELATIONS: PARTICIPANTS' OPINIONS -- Estimations of Policies at a Regional Level Towards Municipalities.

Main Problems in the "Regional Level - Kirovsk Municipality" Relationship -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART 2:LOCAL GOVERNANCE BYLOCAL GOVERNMENT -- NEW SOFTWARE - OLD HARDWARE?THE MUNICIPALITY OF HADSEL -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PLACE AND MUNICIPALITY OF HADSEL -- FACING SERIOUS CHALLENGES… -- HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR PROBLEM-SOLVING -- NEED AN UPGRADE? -- THE RATIONALITY OF LOCAL POLITICS:BUDGETARY DECISION-MAKING IN THEMUNICIPALITY OF SORTLAND -- INTRODUCTION1 -- POLITICAL AUTONOMY -- ANALYZING THE LOCAL DEMOCRATIC DEBATE -- DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF POLITICS -- POLITICS AS DELIBERATION: THE MORAL DISCOURSE -- THE ANNUAL BUDGET PROCESS - DATA AND METHOD -- SORTLAND - THE BLUE TOWN BY THE SEA -- POPULATION GROWTH - THE MAJOR CHALLENGE FOR SORTLAND -- LOCAL DEMOCRACY IN SORTLAND: THE MUNICIPALITY OFSORTLAND -- PHASE 1: SORTLAND AHEAD OF ITS TIME - THE BUDGETARYPROCESS DURING THE 1980S -- PHASE 2: THE MODERN BUDGET PROCESS - THE 2005 AND2006 PROCESS -- DISTINCTIVE WORKING METHOD -- TEAMWORK -- CONSENSUS OR CONFORMITY? -- CONCLUSION -- POWERFUL LEADERS - RELUCTANT FOLLOWERS.BUDGETS AND ELECTIONS IN THE RURAL NORTH -- INTRODUCTION -- BUDGETS AS "POLITICAL THINGS" -- THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL PARTY POLITICS -- FROM BUDGETS TO LOCAL ELECTIONS -- INTRODUCING TWO PERIPHERY MUNICIPALITIES -- DEBATING BUDGETS -- The Debate in Lyngen -- The Debate in Kåfjord -- BALANCING THE BOOKS? -- THE 2007 LOCAL ELECTIONS -- CONCLUSION:VERDICTS ON LOCAL LEADERSHIP -- PART 3:LOCAL GOVERNANCE BY NETWORKS -- NETWORK GOVERNANCE: INTERACTIVERESTRUCTURING AND OPPORTUNITIES ANDCHALLENGES FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT INRURAL NEWFOUNDLAND -- INTRODUCTION1 -- RURAL GOVERNANCE -- MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR -- THE RESEARCH SETTING -- ORGANIZING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN A CONTEXT OFENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RESTRUCTURING -- St. Anthony Area - SABRI.

Port Au Choix - Collapsing Governance -- CONCLUSION -- URBAN AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN NARVIK -GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS,STRATEGIES AND PRACTICE -- INTRODUCTION -- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION, NATIONAL POLITICS ANDURBAN GOVERNANCE -- Global Economy, Local Development -- Urban Governance -- NARVIK: WELFARE INDUSTRIALISM, CRISIS, NEW DEVELOPMENT -- Industrialized Early, Globalized Early -- Decline, Reorganization and Crisis -- Coping with Challenges: Readjustment, Governance and Development -- Development Companies -- Compensatory Companies -- Projects -- Partnerships and Forums -- GOVERNANCE PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE -- Economic Decline - the Poor Capitalist -- Competition, Conflict, Control -- Contested Hegemony? -- EFFECTIVENESS AND DEMOCRACY -- Equivocal Effectiveness and Democratic Weakness -- CONCLUSIONS -- TURNING THE TIDE? THE OUTPORT MUNICIPALITYOF BERLEVÅG IN THE GLOBAL AGE -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- The Holistic Approach -- PAINFUL RESTRUCTURING IN THE LOCAL FISHERIES -- LOCAL GOVERNMENT AT WORK -- SOCIO-CULTURAL PROCESSES: IDENTITY AND PRIDE -- CONCLUSION -- PART 4: LOCAL GOVERNANCE WITHOUTGOVERNMENT -- THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN PROMOTINGNATURE-BASED TOURISM IN NEWFOUNDLAND ANDLABRADOR, CANADA -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- THE CASE STUDIES -- Nature-Based Tourism Network (NBT) -- The Limestone Barrens Habitat Stewardship Program (LBHSP) -- CONCLUSIONS -- LOCAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN FLUX IN THERUSSIAN NORTH -- REVEALING ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES -- SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED DEVELOPMENT AND GEOGRAPHICALCONDITIONS -- COMPETITIVE CONFIGURATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTFACTORS AND LOCALITIES -- GOVERNANCE IN RESOURCE COMMUNITIES -- KOSTOMUKSHA - A MINING TOWN SUBJECT TO DIVERSIFICATION -- NEW INVESTMENT AND MIGRATION -- THE CHALLENGE FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE -- SOUTH SHAPKINO - A WORKING COMMUNITY WITHNO LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

TERRITORIALITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- THE FUTURE OF NORTHERN LOCAL GOVERNANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- GOVERNANCE TYPES REVISITED: HIERARCHIES AND NETWORKS -- GOVERNANCE BY REPRESENTATIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- PROSPECTS FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE -- THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY AND FUTURE CHALLENGES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.