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Croatian and comparative public administration : a journal for theory and practice of public administration, Vol. 14 No. 1, 2014.

Review article

Local Government Reforms in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Some Observations

Fred Lazin orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-144X ; Ben Gurion University, Israel

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Abstract

This paper explores the building of administrative and democratic institutions of local government in newly emerging democracies in parts of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe. It covers the period through 2005. It studies the main objectives and achievements of the various reforms aimed at local government systems in Russia, Poland and Romania. The overall findings in the several countries are all but homogeneous and unidirectional: though democratization and decentralization are claimed by many central governments as non-negotiable, the analysis clearly demonstrates how their actual policies are implemented over time and across nations in an often inconsistent manner.

Keywords

local government; Russia; Poland; Romania; Eastern Europe

Hrčak ID:

129601

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/129601

Publication date:

4.3.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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