Local Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
Comparing Performance in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia
Authors: Lankina, T., Hudalla, A., Wollmann, H.
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This book examines local government performance in key areas of social services and economic promotion in eight towns in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia. It dispels the myth that socio-economic 'givens' or inter-governmental systems are key determinants of local development.
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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.
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Local Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
- Book Subtitle
- Comparing Performance in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia
- Authors
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- T. Lankina
- A. Hudalla
- H. Wollmann
- Series Title
- St Antony's
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-59174-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230591745
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-50036-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-35249-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 216
- Topics