Convenient Local Policymaking for Inconvenient Issues?
Convenient Local Policymaking for Inconvenient Issues?

Summary/Abstract: The key issue in this paper is the success rate for local governments relating to drawing up policies pertaining to socially controversial issues that live up to the expectations of the central government. The question will be focused on an example of a socially controversial issue: the establishment of brothels. The paper presets results of a research into the policies drawn up by the municipal bodies during the last three years with respect to the establishment of brothels. A number of general conclusions are drawn concerning the manner in which the central government can provide guidance for the decentralisation of policy development for socially controversial issues.

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