Crafting Democracy - Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe

Informationen zum Autor By Jennifer A. Yoder Klappentext A decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of democratization and marketization in East Central Europe, a handful of countries introduced territorial and administrative reforms and created regional "self-governments": autonomous subnational-level assemblies elected by universal suffrage. This comparative study of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary explores the reasons for these reforms and their consequences for post-communist democracies. In the context of the long-standing development of regions in Western Europe, Jennifer A. Yoder argues that a new approach is needed to explain recent regional reforms-and their wide variablity-in post-communist Europe. Her study offers a nuanced and authoritative account of a category of reforms that gets to the heart of democratization after communism: how to distribute authority within a new system. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: A Framework for Understanding Region Building in Post-communist EuropeChapter 2: Poland: The Leader of the Pack Chapter 3: The Czech Republic: Reluctant Regionalization Chapter 4: Slovakia: Belated and Incomplete RegionalizationChapter 5: Hungary: The Exceptional Case?ConclusionAppendix A: Snapshots of Regionalization in Western Europe Appendix B: The ECE Regions in the EU Appendix C: Voter Turnout for Regional and National ElectionsAppendix D: Election Outcomes by Region and YearBibliography

Info autore

Jennifer A. Yoder is the Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies at Colby College.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jennifer Yoder, Jennifer A Yoder, Jennifer A. Yoder, Yoder Jennifer A.
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9781442215986
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1598-6
• Pagine: 252
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political structures: democracy, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, European Studies