Decentralization Paradigms in South East Europe: An Introduction

Will Bartlett, Sanja Maleković and Vassilis Monastiriotis ()
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Sanja Maleković: Institute for International Relations

Chapter 1 in Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe, 2013, pp 3-25 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The countries of South East Europe entered the period of transition in the 1990s with very different legacies of government. Albania, Bulgaria and Romania had experienced highly centralized systems of government, while in Yugoslavia a more devolved form of government had been adopted through the system of socialist self-management (Dubey, 1975). This involved the decentralization of most government functions apart from defence and monetary policy to the federal republics. Within republics, many government responsibilities were decentralized to the level of municipalities with their own tax-raising powers, although genuine autonomy was constrained by the institutions of the one-party state.

Keywords: Central Government; Transition Economy; Social Enterprise; Local Economic Development; Regional Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137295651_1

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