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Local Government in Central and Eastern Europe: The Rebirth of Local Democracy book cover

1st Edition

Local Government in Central and Eastern Europe The Rebirth of Local Democracy

Edited By Andrew Coulson, Adrian Campbell Copyright 2007
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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Advocates of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe before 1989 placed great emphasis on community self-government as the basis of civil society and democracy. After the ‘Velvet Revolutions’ of 1989 and the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the new states created an elected local government, whereby cities, towns and villages elected their own representatives and started running local... Read more

1. Into the Mainstream: Local Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe  2. Local Democracy and the Challenges of Decentralizing the State: An International Perspective  3. Taxes, Transfers and Transition - Adjusting Local Finances to New Structures and Institutions: The Experience of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia  4. Poland and Ukraine: Contrasting Paths of Decentralization and Territorial Reform  5. Local Government in the Baltic States: Similar but Different  6. The Tortuous Path of Local Government Reform in the Russian Federation  7. State versus Society? Local Government and the Reconstruction of the Russian State

Biography

Andrew Coulson is at the Institute for Local Government Studies at the University of Birmingham


Adrian Campbell is at the School of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham

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