Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Decentralization Paradigms in South East Europe: An Introduction

      • Will Bartlett, Sanja Maleković, Vassilis Monastiriotis

      Pages 3-25

3. Decentralization and Local Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Puzzles in Local Development and Transformation in South East Europe

      • Bruno Dallago

      Pages 29-50

   3. Less is More: Decentralization in Croatia and Its Impact on Regional Development

      • Dubravka Jurlina Alibegović

      Pages 51-66

   4. Regional Policy and Decentralization in Montenegro

      • Božidar Šišević

      Pages 67-79

4. Decentralization in Ethnically Divided Societies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Decentralization and Regionalization in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Context, Model and Implementation Challenges

      • Vesna Bojičić-Dželilović

      Pages 83-99

   3. Decentralization in Kosovo: Defusing Ethnic Tensions or Furthering Ethnic Isolation?

      • Lars Burema

      Pages 100-117

   4. Decentralization as an Effective Tool of State-Building? The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

      • Lana Srzić

      Pages 118-131

5. Implementation Deficits — Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Decentralization and Regional Policy in Romania and Bulgaria

      • Cristina Matiuta

      Pages 135-150

   3. The Integration of Administrative and Fiscal Decentralization: The Case of Albania

      • Englantina Gjini

      Pages 151-163

   4. The Role of the Third Sector in Providing Social Services at the Local Level in Transitional Serbia

      • Marija Kolin

      Pages 164-178

   5. Strategic Planning of Local Economic Development in Vojvodina

      • Dragiša Mijačić

      Pages 179-195

   6. Towards Policy Entrepreneurship at Community Level: The Impact of Decentralization on Local Public Services in Macedonia

      • Marija Risteska

      Pages 196-210

6. Spatial Inequalities

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Nature of Spatial Inequalities in South East Europe and the Scope for Decentralized Regional Policy: An Analysis of Bulgaria and Serbia

      • Vassilis Monastiriotis

      Pages 213-230

   3. A NUTS2 View of Regional Inequality in Croatia, 1968–2008

      • Ivo Bićanić, Vedrana Pribičević

      Pages 231-251

Decentralisation is changing the face of South East Europe. This book provides practical analysis of the devolutionary measures reshaping post-Communist economies. Using case studies from Croatia, the former Yugoslavia, Albania and more, this collection offers valuable insights into political and fiscal redistribution.

• communism
• development
• Economic Development
• regional development
• regional policy
• regionalization
• transformation
• transition

• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Will Bartlett, Vassilis Monastiriotis

• Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia

  Sanja Maleković

William Bartlett is Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK, and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been Lecturer in Development Economics and Comparative Economic Systems at the Universities of Southampton, Bath and Bristol; Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy; and Professor of Social Economics at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He has been President of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP, 1998–2000) and President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES, 2006–8). He has worked as Senior Economic Advisor to the European Commission in Kosovo, and as a consultant to the European Parliament, the European Training Foundation, UNDP, the World Bank and other international organizations on various assignments in SEE.

Sanja Malekovic is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia. She has been a lecturer for the postgraduate course on European Studies at the University of Padua (EU Cohesion Policy) and is currently a lecturer for the postgraduate course on EU Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, as well as Business Academy Experta on the subject of EC Cohesion Policy. She has been engaged as an expert on a number of projects supported by the EC, UNDP, World Bank, ILO and Croatian central and regional government institutions related toregional development and policy as well as evaluation of development programmes.

Vassilis Monastiriotis is Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of South Eastern Europe at the European Institute at the London School of Economics, UK. He is currently Director of the LSE Research unit on Southeast Europe (LSEE) and Research Affiliate at the Hellenic Observatory and the Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC). He is co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis and a Committee Member of the Regional Science Association International (British & Irish Section). His research covers a range of topics from labour economics and employment relations to regional economics, economic growth and macroeconomic policy. His publications include articles in the Journal of Regional Science, Regional Studies, Empirical Economics, Review of Development Economics, and others. In 2008 he received the Moss Madden Memorial Medal in Regional Science.

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