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Program Overview |
Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
| I. Working Group on Local Government |
| Session 1: Introduction; Decentralization |
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Meeting Room R1 |
| Related to |
I. Working Group on Local Government |
| Chair: |
Gabor Soos, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary |
| WG Programme Coordinators: |
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Gabor Soos, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Markku Temmes, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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The coordinators of the Working Group on Local Government invite researchers and practitioners to take part in a research project aimed at exploring the reforms of, and at, local government level in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The theme of the working group is local government. By using the term local government we prefer the broader context of governance to the internal machinery of local administration. The core of the mission of the working group will be built around a comparative analysis of local government developments in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) area. The developments will be compared to the European and Anglo-Saxon local administration models, as well as to the theories of self governance and decentralization.
The Working Group will focus on local government reforms. Members are expected to compare the challenges CEE countries face, identify the trends and waves of changes, and draw conclusions about convergence and divergence within CEE and between the CEE countries and the rest of Europe. The reforms examined by the group include both large-scale structural changes of public administration and small-scale managerial reforms initiated by local decision-makers.
● Markku Temmes: Introduction on the themes of the working group.
● Gábor Soós: Organization of the workshop and other practicalities.
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Papers:
Paper: From centralisation to decentralisation – a change in reform profile of the CEE countries?
Author(s):
Markku Temmes, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Paper: Local government reforms in Bulgaria: Recent developments and key challenges
Author(s):
Desislava Stoilova, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Paper: Strengthening sub-local governance in Bulgaria: Demand for further reforms?
Author(s):
Nadezhda Bobcheva, Oborishte DIstrict (Part of Sofia Greater Municipality), Sofia, Bulgaria
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Paper: Decentralization processes of local government sector in Poland
Author(s):
Iwona Otola, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland
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