The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe

From perennial bridesmaids to fully fledged spouses : advancing the comparative study of local elections and voting / Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers -- Denmark : how two-and-a-half parties rule within a multi-party system / Ulrik Kjaer -- Finland : local autonomy, tenacious national parties and sovereign, but indifferent, voters / Siv Sandberg -- Iceland : where localism prevails / Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir and Eva H. Önnudóttir -- Norway : local democracy by trial (and error) / Jo Saglie and Signe Bock Segaard -- Sweden : joint election day, party dominance and extensive turnout / Anders Lidström -- Ireland : an atypical electoral system for an atypical local government system / Aodh Quinlivan, Mark Callanan and Liam Weeks -- United Kingdom : diversity amid the Cinderella elections? / Alistair Clark and Alia Middleton -- Austria : strong participation across federal diversity / Philipp Umek -- Belgium : between national barometer and local atmosphere / Kristof Steyvers -- Germany : a variety of local elections in a federal system / Angelika Vetter -- Liechtenstein : two leading parties in a direct democratic framework / Wilfried Marxer -- Luxembourg : towards a thinner relationship between local and national elections? / Dan Schmit, Raphaël Kies and Patrick Dumont -- The Netherlands : increasing responsibilities and nationalized elections / Henk van der Kolk -- Switzerland : low turnout but no second order elections / Andreas Ladner -- Andorra : local elections in a quasi-federal microstate / Lluís Medir, Pere Vilanova and Esther Pano -- Cyprus : national parties' dominance and the decline of electoral participation / Andreas Kirlappos -- France : competition only in large cities / Bernard Dolez and Annie Laurent -- Greece : mayors in the foreground, parties behind the scene / Nikos Hlepas and Theodore Chadjipadelis -- Italy : a hard-to-decipher local voting / Silvia Bolgherini and Selena Grimaldi -- Portugal : elections and voting in a dual-tier local government system / António F. Tavares and Pedro J. Camões -- Spain : one main system to govern them all? : stable institutions in heterogeneous contexts / Carmen Navarro, Lluís Medir and Jaume Magre.