The shape of territorial autonomy of Austria is formed by two factors: the historical tradition and the size of the country. Only Vienna is a city that can be called metropolitan. The most important regulations are ...

While main principles referring to the local government in Turkey are regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, particular regulations are formulated by specific laws. Dualism remains the main feature of ...

The origin of the local government in Bohemia and Moravia (approx. the area of the present Czech Republic) can be traced back to the mid-19th century. After World War I, the basic unit of local government in the then ...

The local government of Finland has been created over centuries, and its traditions go back to the period of its national relation with Sweden. In the current legal state, a province (Finn. lääni, Sw. län) is the biggest ...

The process of formation of local authorities in Belgium in the last decades is connected with the four-stage reform that has been realized from early 1970s. In this time, Belgium has transformed its centralized, unitarian ...

In Denmark, the Commission on Administrative Structure started off a new local government reform in October 2002. This reform contained three main goals: new municipalities, new distribution of tasks, and a new financing ...

The Netherlands is a country with rich traditions of self-government. Already in the Middle Ages, on the territory of the Netherlands advanced forms of self-government existed. Local government has changed over the ...

This article is the first part of an extensive sociological-linguistic study which has grown out of a paper the author presented at the 13th All-Polish Congress of Sociology (2007] in a working group on discourse analysis. ...

Many authors point out enormous socio-economic and cultural divisions in the new global order. The world is said to be divided into the rich and prosperous centre, the semi-periphery, and the periphery inhabited by 2/3 of ...