Format:
1 online resource (166 pages)
ISBN:
9781442216006
Content:
A decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of democratization and marketization in East Central Europe, a handful of countries introduced territorial and administrative reforms and created regional "self-governments": autonomous subnational-level assemblies elected by universal suffrage. This comparative study of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary explores the reasons for these reforms and their consequences for post-communist democracies. In the context of the long-standing development of regions in Western Europe, Jennifer A. Yoder argues that a new approach is needed to explain recent regional reforms-and their wide variablity-in post-communist Europe. Her study offers a nuanced and authoritative account of a category of reforms that gets to the heart of democratization after communism: how to distribute authority within a new system.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A Framework for Understanding Region Building in Post-communist Europe -- Chapter 2: Poland: The Leader of the Pack -- Chapter 3: The Czech Republic: Reluctant Regionalization -- Chapter 4: Slovakia: Belated and Incomplete Regionalization -- Chapter 5: Hungary: The Exceptional Case? -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Snapshots of Regionalization in Western Europe -- Appendix B: The ECE Regions in the EU -- Appendix C: Voter Turnout for Regional and National Elections -- Appendix D: Election Outcomes by Region and Year -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442215986
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442215986
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1120197
