Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems

Prof. Matteo Nicolini, PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Verona (Italy), where he teaches Comparative Constitutional Traditions and Global Comparative Law. He is also Visiting Lecturer at the Newcastle University Law School (UK), and External Partner of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice (LTAP), Liverpool John Moores University (UK).​Prof. Alice Valdesalici, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research. She was a visiting scholar at the Instituts d’Estudis Autonòmics in Barcelona and at the Deutsche Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung Speyer. She was awarded the ‘Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award 2016’, by the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS), and the ‘Award for Federal and Regional studies 2016’, by the Austrian Landtagspräsidentenkonferenz and the Institute for Federalism (IFÖ - Innsbruck).

• Comparing and Contrasting Local Government in Multi-Layered Systems.- Part I - The Federal-local Connection in Mature Federations.- The US Local Government Organisation: Origins, Development, and Federal Implications.- Local Governments in the Canadian Federal System – Institutions, Jurisdiction and Cooperation.- Local Governance in the Swiss Federal System. Comparative and Alternative Approaches to the Traditional Paradigm.- Local Governments in Germany between Growing Challenges and Precarious Budgets.- Local Government in Australia: Constitutionally Subordinate, but Vibrant and Fundamental.- Local Governance in Austria: Diversity in Homogeneity.- Part II - The Federal-Local Connection in Devolutionary Federations.- The Municipal Regime in Argentina.- The Municipality in the Mexican Federal System.- Local Governance in Belgium: A Taste of ‘Institutional Lasagna’ Belgian Style.- Local Governance in Brazil: The Unresolved Contradiction between Claims to Autonomy and Centripetal Trends.- The System of Local Government in Italy: A Stress-Test to Traditional Paradigms?.- Local Autonomy in Spain: Between Autonomic Jurisdictions and the Central Level of Government.- Local Government in the United Kingdom.- Federalism, Local Government, and Transition to Authoritarianism in Russia.- ‘Everything is Bridgeable’ in a Post-Conflict Situation? The Situation of Local Government in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Part III - Postcolonial Reinventions of the Federal-Local Connection.- The Federal-Local Connection: The South African Case.- Autonomy of Local Government in Ethiopia.- Local Governments, Federalism, and the Governance of Public Health in India.- Reconceptualising the Federal-Local Connection. Postcolonial Reinventions. Nigeria.- The Legal Framework of Centre-Local Connections in Malaysia. Beyond the Postcolonial Narrative: Legacy or Reinvention?.- Revisiting Taxonomies: Local Governance Beyond Western Federal Systems.