Titre
L’autonomie locale, un concept multidimensionnel : comment le définir, comment le mesurer et comment créer un indice d’autonomie locale comparatif ?
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Keuffer, Nicolas
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1370-0731
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2016
Volume
23
Numéro
4
Première page
443
Dernière page/numéro d’article
490
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
français
Notes
Local Autonomy, a Multidimensional Concept: How Can It Be Defined, How Can It Be Measured and How Can a Comparative Local Autonomy Index Be Created?
Résumé
Local autonomy has become an increasingly valued feature of local government in recent decades. Indeed, decentralization reforms implementing the provision of services closer to citizens have been a general trend. Nevertheless, there is little agreement on the definition of local autonomy and the way it can be operationalized and measured. The aim of this article is to draw upon decentralization and local government theories to propose a theoretically legitimized index of local autonomy that can be applied in a comparative perspective. The literature on the topic apprehends local autonomy either by sectorial approaches—legalistic, functional, organizational or political—or by combining similar dimensions in very different ways, without saying whether one is more important than the others. Having created and implemented a codebook of eleven indicators for thirty-nine European countries, the empirical findings, combined with theoretical considerations, lead us to suggest regrouping the indicators into seven constitutive dimensions of local autonomy. They highlight the fact that very different national local autonomy profiles exist among European countries. In addition, the local autonomy index, constructed by weighting the dimensions, shows significant disparities on either side of the continent.
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serval:BIB_F28F908FCB5A
Date de création
2017-10-30T10:05:06.586Z
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2025-05-21T06:51:09Z
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RIPC_234_0443.pdf
Version du manuscrit
published
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1.67 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
PID Serval
serval:BIB_F28F908FCB5A.P001
URN
urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_F28F908FCB5A1
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