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    <title>Dynamics of institutional change</title>
    <subTitle>local government reorganization in western democracies</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Dente, Bruno.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kjellberg, Francesco.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Sage Publications</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1988</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>191 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction / Bruno Dente and Francesco Kjellberg -- Decentralizing welfare states / Douglas E. Ashford -- Local government and the welfare state / Francesco Kjellberg -- Local government reforms and structural changes in public administration / Markku Kiviniemi -- Local government reorganization / L.J. Sharpe -- Radical reforms and marginal change / Yves Mény -- The political economy of local government reform in the United States / Thomas L. Anton -- Local government reform and legitimacy / Bruno Dente.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Bruno Dente and Francesco Kjellberg.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographies and index.</note>
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    <topic>Local government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Comparative government</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">JS67 .D95 1988</classification>
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      <title>Sage modern politics series ; v. 19</title>
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