Autonomous intergovernmental Spain -- Local governments in intergovernmental processes -- Building federal Spain: the autonomous communities -- Intergrating local governments into the state of autonomies -- Intergovernmental financing: the ties that bind -- Intergovernmental politics and actions -- International-intergovernmental dimensions -- Policy networks in local government: three case studies -- Reform and the challenges of urban governing -- Accomplishments and challenges -- Appendices: A. 1977-2005 : a post-Franco intergovernmental chronology: events, actions and agreements; B. Notable changes to law 7/1985; C. Major changes to local financing law; D. LRAU explained by a Spanish lawyer
Summary
Spain has been changing its institutional framework in important ways over the past thirty years. The country has gone from a dictatorship to a democracy, from a unitary state to a decentralized one, from authoritarian politics to a self-conscious, civil society with a developed welfare state within a European context
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index
