Coming out of the shadow? Studies of local governments in Central and Eastern Europe in European academic research

Pawel Swianiewicz and Anna Kurniewicz

Local Government Studies, 2019, vol. 45, issue 2, 153-174

Abstract: This article is an analysis of the changing role of research on local governments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) within mainstream European studies. It refers to dependency theory (Wallerstein, Prebish) as applied to scientific research. It classifies CEE as being in the semi-periphery of academic research. The empirical analysis consists of two parts: (1) qualitative review of the most important of the comparative studies of European local governments. It includes a discussion on the role of local governments and researchers from CEE in these studies; (2) quantitative based on an analysis of articles published in international journals and citations for those articles in Scopus. The analysis covers 14 countries (all new member states who joined the EU from 2004 onwards, plus the Balkan countries: Albania, Macedonia, and Serbia).

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2018.1548352

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