Consolidation or fragmentation? : the size of local governments in Central and Eastern Europe
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Consolidation or fragmentation? : the size of local governments in Central and Eastern Europe
(LGI books)
Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, Open Society Institute, 2002
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What is the optimal size of a local government unit? 'Consolidation or Fragmentation? The Size of Local governments in Central and Eastern Europe' addresses this policy relevant question in relation to the emerging democracies of the region.
Table of Contents
Foreword. xv List of Contributors . xvii 1. Size of Local Governments: International Context and Theoretical Framework . 1 Pawel Swianiewicz 2. Size of Local Governments, Local Democracy and Local Service Delivery in Hungary . 31 Eva Fekete, Mihaly Lados, Edit Pfeil, Zsolt Szoboszlai 3. Separate Existences Above All Else --Local Self-Governments and Service Delivery in Slovakia . 101 Jaroslav Kling, V. Niznansky, Jaroslav Pilat 4. Does Larger Mean More Effective? Size and the functioning of Local Governments in Bulgaria . 167 Stefan Ivanov, Guinka Tchavdarova, Emil Savov, Hristo Stanev 5. Economies and Diseconomies of Scale in Polish Local Governments . 219 Pawel Swianiewicz, Mikolaj Herbst 6. Is There a Third Road Between Small yet Ineffective and Big yet Less Democratic? Comparative Conclusions and Lessons Learned . 293 Pawel Swianiewicz Index . 327
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