The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union were founded on strong commitments to democracy at local as well as national levels of administration. This book shows how these commitments were put into practice in local elections held between 1990 and 1992, and what happened subsequently.Local Government in Eastern Europe begins with overviews of contemporary local government in Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and the Russian Federation. This is followed by a series of specialist studies focusing on local government finance, management skills, local economic development, housing, and the relationship between elected and appointed officials. The book concludes with a study of how Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union can learn from the experiences of local government in the West.
As well as offering a series of authoritative and original studies, this collection makes some significant contributions to the on-going theoretical debate about the nature of local democracy in a free society. It will be welcomed by students of East European politics, visitors and consultants working in the region, and by politicians, administrators and academics in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who are themselves struggling to bring change to their local communities, and who need to understand how others are tackling problems similar to their own.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'The individual chapters will be useful to students of the political systems of the new Europe, and will provide the starting point for comparisons with other models of local government.'
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-1-85278-798-1 (9781852787981)
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Edited by Andrew Coulson, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK
From democratic centralism to local democracy. Part I Local government in Poland; the Czech and Slovak republics; local government in Hungary; local government in Romania; local government in Bulgaria; regional and local government in Ukraine; local self-government in Latvia; local government in Lithuania in the transitional period; regional power in the Russian federation. Part II Some socio-cultural obstacles to community participation in Poland; local communities and local self-government in Poland - a regional case study; the contribution of local authorities to economic development in Slovakia; local government finance in Hungary - issues and dilemmas; power and structure in Nizhny-Novgorod, St Petersburg and Moscow; what Eastern democracies might learn from the West.
