Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe

Part I. Introduction

1. Decentralization Paradigms in South East Europe: An Introduction
Will Bartlett, Sanja Maleković, Vassilis Monastiriotis

Part II. Decentralization and Local Development

2. Puzzles in Local Development and Transformation in South East Europe
Bruno Dallago

3. Less is More: Decentralization in Croatia and Its Impact on Regional Development
Dubravka Jurlina Alibegović

4. Regional Policy and Decentralization in Montenegro
Božidar Šišević

Part III. Decentralization in Ethnically Divided Societies

5. Decentralization and Regionalization in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Context, Model and Implementation Challenges
Vesna Bojičić-Dželilović

6. Decentralization in Kosovo: Defusing Ethnic Tensions or Furthering Ethnic Isolation?
Lars Burema

7. Decentralization as an Effective Tool of State-Building? The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
Lana Srzić

Part IV. Implementation Deficits — Case Studies

8. Decentralization and Regional Policy in Romania and Bulgaria
Cristina Matiuta

9. The Integration of Administrative and Fiscal Decentralization: The Case of Albania
Englantina Gjini

10. The Role of the Third Sector in Providing Social Services at the Local Level in Transitional Serbia
Marija Kolin

11. Strategic Planning of Local Economic Development in Vojvodina
Dragiša Mijačić

12. Towards Policy Entrepreneurship at Community Level: The Impact of Decentralization on Local Public Services in Macedonia
Marija Risteska

Part V. Spatial Inequalities

13. The Nature of Spatial Inequalities in South East Europe and the Scope for Decentralized Regional Policy: An Analysis of Bulgaria and Serbia
Vassilis Monastiriotis

14. A NUTS2 View of Regional Inequality in Croatia, 1968–2008
Ivo Bićanić, Vedrana Pribičević

Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Regional/Spatial Science, Development Economics, Economic Growth, Economic Systems, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics