Foreword. xv List of Contributors . xvii 1. Size of Local Governments: International Context and Theoretical Framework . 1 Pawel Swianiewicz 2. Size of Local Governments, Local Democracy and Local Service Delivery in Hungary . 31 Eva Fekete, Mihaly Lados, Edit Pfeil, Zsolt Szoboszlai 3. Separate Existences Above All Else --Local Self-Governments and Service Delivery in Slovakia . 101 Jaroslav Kling, V. Niznansky, Jaroslav Pilat 4. Does Larger Mean More Effective? Size and the functioning of Local Governments in Bulgaria . 167 Stefan Ivanov, Guinka Tchavdarova, Emil Savov, Hristo Stanev 5. Economies and Diseconomies of Scale in Polish Local Governments . 219 Pawel Swianiewicz, Mikolaj Herbst 6. Is There a Third Road Between Small yet Ineffective and Big yet Less Democratic? Comparative Conclusions and Lessons Learned . 293 Pawel Swianiewicz Index . 327
