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9780230500365

Local Governance in Central and Eastern Europe Comparing Performance in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia

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    9780230500365

  • ISBN10:

    0230500366

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-03-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book is an examination of local government performance in key areas of social services and economic promotion in eight towns in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.

Author Biography

TOMILA V. LANKINA is a research fellow with the Local Governance Research Unit, Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is the author of Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia (2004). Her current research focuses on comparative local governance and on the impact of transnational and supranational actors on local democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

ANNEKE HUDALLA is a scholar and journalist specializing on the politics of the Czech Republic. She is the author of Außenpolitik in den Zeiten der Transformation: Die Europapolitik der Tschechischen Republik 1993-2001 (Foreign Policy in the Time of Transition: European Policy of the Czech Republic, 1993-2001).

HELLMUT WOLLMANN is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Institute for the Social Sciences, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He is coeditor of Local Democracy in Post-Communist Europe and co-author of Governing after Communism: Institutions and Policy-making.

Table of Contents

List of Tablesp. vi
Notes on Authorsp. vii
Prefacep. viii
Methodology and Case Selectionp. 1
Local Government Performance in Social Policyp. 31
Local Government Performance in Economic Promotionp. 59
Socioeconomic Contextsp. 82
Intergovernmental Setting and Local Performancep. 99
Parties and the Politics of Local Performancep. 139
Conclusionsp. 175
Notesp. 183
Bibliographyp. 199
Indexp. 209
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