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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Government and Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe / edited by William Bartlett, Sanja Kmezić, Katarina Đulić

Publisher	(Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan)
Year	2018
Edition	1st ed. 2018.
Authors	Bartlett, William editor Kmezić, Sanja editor Đulić, Katarina editor SpringerLink (Online service)

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XXII, 327 p. 38 illus., 14 illus. in color : online resource
Notes	Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Decentralisation and Local Government Finance: An Overview -- Part I: Europeanisation and the Political Economy of Decentralisation -- Chapter 2: Slovenia: Vertical Imbalance in Local Government Financing -- Chapter 3: Croatia: Instruments of Fiscal Equalisation -- Part II: Crisis, Policy Reversals and Local Government Debt -- Chapter 4: Serbia: Local Government Financing and Non-Transparency of Fiscal Data -- Chapter 5. Montenegro: Volatile Municipal Revenues -- Chapter 6: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Local Government Debt -- Part III: Local Governments in Transition and the Political Economy of Ethnicity -- Chapter 7: Macedonia: Local Government Efficiency and Ethnic Fragmentation -- Chapter 8: Kosovo: Can Decentralisation Resolve Ethnic Conflict? -- Part IV: Albania: Struggling with the Legacy of Extreme Centralisation -- Chapter 9: Albania: Aligning Territorial and Fiscal Decentralisation -- Part V: Conclusions -- Chapter 10: Comparative Conclusions: Decentralisation and Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe This edited collection provides a comprehensive geographic and chronological overview of the decentralisation processes in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their transition and EU integration years, from 1990 until 2016. These countries present a unique laboratory for the analysis of economic, social and political change, having traversed armed conflicts, dramatic economic and political changes, and EU pre-accession processes involving deep institutional reform. They have also endured the Eurozone crisis, which has led to high levels of unemployment, wide fiscal gaps and dangerously high levels of indebtedness. Observing the quarter century-long transition from socialism to capitalism through the prism of decentralisation sheds new light on studying the political economy of the region and the current status of the individual countries in terms of economic development and their EU integration progress. The contributors enrich the wider literature on fiscal decentralisation in transition countries by exploring several broad questions on democratisation, the political economy of post-communist transition, the role of external actors in policy transfer and the issue of financial stability in the post-crisis period. William Bartlett is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is coordinator of the LSEE Research Network on Social Cohesion in South East Europe and has carried out numerous research and consultancy projects, including those for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the European Training Foundation, UNDP and UNICEF. Sanja Kmezić is Lecturer at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria. Kmezić is a co-founder of the non-profit think tank European Research Academy Belgrade (EURAK), Serbia and has worked as an advisor on various international development programmes aimed at local government and public administration reform. Katarina Đulić is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration in Belgrade, Serbia. She is also a co-founder of EURAK and has carried out numerous consultancy projects for the International Finance Corporation, USAID and SECO aimed at governance and public financial management reform HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96092-0
Subjects	LCSH:Economic policy LCSH:Europe—Economic conditions LCSH:Economics LCSH:Evolutionary economics LCSH:Institutional economics FREE:Economic Policy FREE:European Economics FREE:Political Economy and Economic Systems FREE:Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
Classification	LCC:HD87-87.55 DC23:338.9
ID	8000058798
ISBN	9783319960920