Edward C. Page
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198277279
- eISBN:
- 9780191684166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198277279.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter describes patterns of central–local access in Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Spain. It evaluates whether some patterns of central–local access offer greater ...
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This chapter describes patterns of central–local access in Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Spain. It evaluates whether some patterns of central–local access offer greater opportunities for local political influence than others. It also presents a more satisfactory set of criteria for understanding the importance of different patterns of access in so far as they affect the opportunities for local influence in the centre.Less
This chapter describes patterns of central–local access in Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Spain. It evaluates whether some patterns of central–local access offer greater opportunities for local political influence than others. It also presents a more satisfactory set of criteria for understanding the importance of different patterns of access in so far as they affect the opportunities for local influence in the centre.
Kathryn Gleadle
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264492
- eISBN:
- 9780191734274
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264492.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter considers the public career of Mary Ann Gilbert (1776–1845), a landed proprietor in Eastbourne in East Sussex where she established herself as a leading agricultural expert and poor law ...
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This chapter considers the public career of Mary Ann Gilbert (1776–1845), a landed proprietor in Eastbourne in East Sussex where she established herself as a leading agricultural expert and poor law reformer. Her activities had a substantial impact on local parochial politics and her work was cited and discussed in parliamentary reports and government commissions. Gilbert personifies the overlapping themes of landownership, local influence, and personal authority. Her ability to construct herself as a female expert through cultural confidence and specialized knowledge, her employment of the varying modes of epistolary exchange, her use of ephemeral print culture, and her relationship with parochial government all emerge as particularly important themes. This chapter examines the salience of dynastic subjectivity as well as Gilbert's public spheres, her marriage, and her role in agricultural reform and the allotment movement during her time.Less
This chapter considers the public career of Mary Ann Gilbert (1776–1845), a landed proprietor in Eastbourne in East Sussex where she established herself as a leading agricultural expert and poor law reformer. Her activities had a substantial impact on local parochial politics and her work was cited and discussed in parliamentary reports and government commissions. Gilbert personifies the overlapping themes of landownership, local influence, and personal authority. Her ability to construct herself as a female expert through cultural confidence and specialized knowledge, her employment of the varying modes of epistolary exchange, her use of ephemeral print culture, and her relationship with parochial government all emerge as particularly important themes. This chapter examines the salience of dynastic subjectivity as well as Gilbert's public spheres, her marriage, and her role in agricultural reform and the allotment movement during her time.
Edward C. Page
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198277279
- eISBN:
- 9780191684166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198277279.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter reviews principal conclusions of the study and explores their implications for the future of local government and for countries other than those included in the analysis. It looks at the ...
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This chapter reviews principal conclusions of the study and explores their implications for the future of local government and for countries other than those included in the analysis. It looks at the different opportunities for local influence offered by different political systems and suggests that the nature of this variation implies two very different and conflicting types of local parties. The differences between systems of local government in unitary states, as well as the tensions within the local government systems of other states, seem to be between a form of local government where the role of political leadership is predominantly one of giving direction to a welfare bureaucracy, and a form where the leadership is predominantly that of mobilizing political support.Less
This chapter reviews principal conclusions of the study and explores their implications for the future of local government and for countries other than those included in the analysis. It looks at the different opportunities for local influence offered by different political systems and suggests that the nature of this variation implies two very different and conflicting types of local parties. The differences between systems of local government in unitary states, as well as the tensions within the local government systems of other states, seem to be between a form of local government where the role of political leadership is predominantly one of giving direction to a welfare bureaucracy, and a form where the leadership is predominantly that of mobilizing political support.
Massimo Montanari
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231160841
- eISBN:
- 9780231535083
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231160841.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This text tells the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to flavor Italian identity. The fusion of ancient Roman cuisine—which consisted of bread, wine, and olives—with the ...
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This text tells the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to flavor Italian identity. The fusion of ancient Roman cuisine—which consisted of bread, wine, and olives—with the barbarian diet—rooted in bread, milk, and meat—first formed the basics of modern eating across Europe. From there, the book highlights the importance of the Italian city in the development of gastronomic taste in the Middle Ages, the role of Arab traders in positioning the country as the supreme producers of pasta, and the nation's healthful contribution of vegetables to the fifteenth-century European diet. Italy became a receiving country with the discovery of the New World, absorbing corn, potatoes, and tomatoes into its national cuisine. As disaster dispersed Italians in the nineteenth century, new immigrant stereotypes portraying Italians as “macaroni eaters” spread. However, two world wars and globalization renewed the perception of Italy and its culture as unique in the world, and the production of food constitutes an important part of that uniqueness.Less
This text tells the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to flavor Italian identity. The fusion of ancient Roman cuisine—which consisted of bread, wine, and olives—with the barbarian diet—rooted in bread, milk, and meat—first formed the basics of modern eating across Europe. From there, the book highlights the importance of the Italian city in the development of gastronomic taste in the Middle Ages, the role of Arab traders in positioning the country as the supreme producers of pasta, and the nation's healthful contribution of vegetables to the fifteenth-century European diet. Italy became a receiving country with the discovery of the New World, absorbing corn, potatoes, and tomatoes into its national cuisine. As disaster dispersed Italians in the nineteenth century, new immigrant stereotypes portraying Italians as “macaroni eaters” spread. However, two world wars and globalization renewed the perception of Italy and its culture as unique in the world, and the production of food constitutes an important part of that uniqueness.
