Harald Baldersheim & Hellmut Wollmann 
The Comparative Study of Local Government and Politics 
Overview and Synthesis

The book provides a the state-of-the-art of local government studies, with an emphasis on contributions by political science. Particular attention is paid to the development of the research agenda in the field, of which a potential future development is outlined.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Harald Baldersheim, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway Prof. (em.) Hellmut Wollmann, Institute of Social Science, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany