Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Government and Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bartlett, William (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kmezić, Sanja (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Đulić, Katarina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Europe-Economic conditions.; Economics.; Evolutionary economics.; Economic Policy.; European Economics.; Political Economy/Economic Systems.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive geographic and chronological overview of the decentralisation processes in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their transition and EU integration years, from 1990 until 2016. These countries present a unique laboratory for the...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Decentralisation and Local Government Finance: An Overview
• Part I: Europeanisation and the Political Economy of Decentralisation
• Chapter 2: Slovenia: Vertical Imbalance in Local Government Financing
• Chapter 3: Croatia: Instruments of Fiscal Equalisation
• Part II: Crisis, Policy Reversals and Local Government Debt
• Chapter 4: Serbia: Local Government Financing and Non-Transparency of Fiscal Data
• Chapter 5. Montenegro: Volatile Municipal Revenues
• Chapter 6: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Local Government Debt
• Part III: Local Governments in Transition and the Political Economy of Ethnicity
• Chapter 7: Macedonia: Local Government Efficiency and Ethnic Fragmentation
• Chapter 8: Kosovo: Can Decentralisation Resolve Ethnic Conflict?
• Part IV: Albania: Struggling with the Legacy of Extreme Centralisation
• Chapter 9: Albania: Aligning Territorial and Fiscal Decentralisation
• Part V: Conclusions
• Chapter 10: Comparative Conclusions: Decentralisation and Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe.