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Studies in Economic Transition General Editors: Jens Hölscher, Reader in Economics, University of Brighton; and Horst Tomann, Professor of Economics, Free University Berlin This series has been established in response to a growing demand for a greater u nderstanding of the transformation of economic systems. It brings together theoretical and empirical studies on economic transition and economic d evelopment. The post-communist transition from planned to market economies is one of the main areas of applied theory because in this field the most dramatic examples of change and economic dynamics can be found. The series aims to contribute to the understanding of specific major economic changes as well as to advance the theory of economic development. The implications of economic policy will be a major point of focus. Titles include: William Bartlett, Sanja Malekovic, Vassilis Monastiriotis (editors) DECENTRALISATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE Tilman Bruk and Hartmut Lehmann (editors) IN THE GRIP OF TRANSITION Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine Lucian Cernat EUROPEANIZATION, VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Bruno Dallago and Ichiro Iwasaki (editors) CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES Bruno Dallago (editor) TRANSFORMATION AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION The Local Dimension Hella Engerer PRIVATIZATION AND ITS LIMITS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Property Rights in Transition Saul Estrin, Grzegorz W. Kolodko and Milica Uvalic (editors) TRANSITION AND BEYOND Daniela Gabor CENTRAL BANKING AND FINANCIALIZATION A Romanian Account of how Eastern Europe became Subprime Oleh Havrylyshyn DIVERGENT PATHS IN POST-COMMUNIST TRANSFORMATION Capitalism for All or Capitalism for the Few? Iraj Hoshi, Paul J.J. Welfens and Anna Wziatek-Kubiak (editors) INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS AND RESTRUCTURING IN ENLARGED EUROPE How Accession Countries Catch Up and Integrate in the European Union Björn Jindra INTERNATIONALISATION THEORY AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION An Investigation of the Multinational Affiliates in East Germany Mihaela Keleman and Monika Kostera (editors) CRITICAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN EASTERN EUROPE Managing the Transition David Lane (editor) THE TRANSFORMATION OF STATE SOCIALISM System Change, Capitalism, or Something Else? David Lane and Martin Myant (editors) VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES Jens Lowitzsch FINANCIAL PARTICIPATION OF EMPLOYEES IN THE EU-27 Enrico Marelli and Marcello Signorelli (editors) ECONOMIC GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF TRANSITION Sönke Maatsch CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN MIGRANTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIAL PROTECTION Tomasz Mickiewicz ECONOMIC TRANSITION IN CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES Tomasz Mickiewicz ECONOMICS OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE SECOND EDITION Central and Eastern Europe Revisited Milan Nikolic´ MONETARY POLICY IN TRANSITION Inflation Nexus Money Supply in Postcommunist Russia Julie Pellegrin THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COMPETITIVENESS IN AN ENLARGED EUROPE Stanislav Poloucek (editor) REFORMING THE FINANCIAL SECTOR IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Johannes Stephan (editor) TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER VIA FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Horst Tomann MONETARY INTEGRATION IN EUROPE Pasquale Tridico INSTITUTIONS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES Milica Uvalic SERBIA’S TRANSITION Towards a Better Future Hans van Zon RUSSIA’S DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM The Cult of Power The full list of titles available is on the website: www.palgrave.com/economics/set.asp Studies in Economic Transition Series Standing Order ISBN 978–0–333–73353–0 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of diffi culty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Decentralization and Local Development in South East Europe Edited by Will Bartlett Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy of South East Europe, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Sanja Malekovic´ Senior Research Associate, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia and Vassilis Monastiriotis Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of South East Europe, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Editorial and Selection Matter © Will Bartlett, Sanja Malekovic´ and Vassilis Monastiriotis 2013 Individual chapters © Contributors 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-35563-7 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-34717-9 ISBN 978-1-137-29565-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137295651 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xv Part I Introduction 1 Decentralization Paradigms in South East Europe: An Introduction 3 Will Bartlett, Sanja Malekovic´ and Vassilis Monastiriotis Part II Decentralization and Local Development 2 Puzzles in Local Development and Transformation in South East Europe 29 Bruno Dallago 3 Less is More: Decentralization in Croatia and Its Impact on Regional Development 51 Dubravka Jurlina Alibegovic´ 4 Regional Policy and Decentralization in Montenegro 67 Will Bartlett and Božidar Šiševic´ Part III Decentralization in Ethnically Divided Societies 5 Decentralization and Regionalization in Bosnia–Herzegovina: Context, Model and Implementation Challenges 83 Vesna Bojicˇic´-Dželilovic´ 6 Decentralization in Kosovo: Defusing Ethnic Tensions or Furthering Ethnic Isolation? 100 Lars Burema 7 Decentralization as an Effective Tool of State-Building? The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo 118 Lana Srzic´ Part IV Implementation Deficits – Case Studies 8 Decentralization and Regional Policy in Romania and Bulgaria 135 Cristina Matiuta v vi Contents 9 The Integration of Administrative and Fiscal Decentralization: The Case of Albania 151 Englantina Gjini 10 The Role of the Third Sector in Providing Social Services at the Local Level in Transitional Serbia 164 Marija Kolin 11 Strategic Planning of Local Economic Development in Vojvodina 179 Dragiša Mijacˇic´ 12 Towards Policy Entrepreneurship at Community Level: The Impact of Decentralization on Local Public Services in Macedonia 196 Marija Risteska Part V Spatial Inequalities 13 The Nature of Spatial Inequalities in South East Europe and the Scope for Decentralized Regional Policy: An Analysis of Bulgaria and Serbia 213 Vassilis Monastiriotis 14 A NUTS2 View of Regional Inequality in Croatia, 1968–2008 231 Ivo Bic´anic´ and Vedrana Pribicˇevic´ Index 252 List of Figures and Tables Figures 3.1 R evenues and expenditures of the sub-national governments in revenues and expenditures of the consolidated general government in 2006 (% of total) 55 3.2 Gross domestic product per capita in the Croatian counties (in HRK, current prices) 57 5.1 N umber of municipalities by population 90 9.1 T ransfers from the central government to LGUs (2004–11) 157 9.2 T he revenues of LGUs from local sources (2000–10) 160 11.1 Map of local self-government units (cities and municipalities) in Vojvodina 185 12.1 Municipal perceptions on execution of decentralized competences 205 12.2 Implementation of child protection competence per region 205 13.1 Regional disparities across the NUTS2 regions of Bulgaria (coefficient of variation) 216 13.2 Regional disparities across the NUTS2 regions of Serbia (coefficient of variation) 217 13.3 Regional disparities at the district and municipal level in Serbia and Bulgaria (coefficient of variation) 219 13.4 Geographical distribution of GDP pc and wages across districts and municipalities in Bulgaria and Serbia 221 13.5 Spatial association of regional outcomes: Global Moran’s I 223 13.6 Local spatial association in Bulgaria and Serbia 225 14.1 Croatian NUTS2 regions 237 14.2 Relative income per capita in NUTS2 regions (1969–2008) 245 vii viii List of Figures and Tables Tables 2.1 Territorial organization in SEE 33 2.2 S ize of local governments in SEE, 2003 (2009 data in parenthesis) 34 2.3 N umber of SMEs in South East Europe (2007) 38 2.4 R anking on ease of doing business (2011) 39 2.5 D ispersion of regional GDP at NUTS2 level, per inhabitant 40 2.6 S ome indicators of malaise in South East Europe 42 2.7 S ocial security and social protection (2003) 43 3.1 R evenues and expenditures of the sub-national government in revenues and expenditures of the consolidated general government and in GDP 53 3.2 S tructure of sub-national revenues (%) 59 3.3 D ecentralization and regional development 61 6.1 N ew municipalities in Kosovo 103 12.1 Childcare facilities in Macedonia by region 203 13.1 Relative importance of intra-regional disparities in Serbia and Bulgaria 220 14.1 Disparities and inequality of Croatian counties 238 14.2 Relative economic density in NUTS2 regions 246 14.3 Intra-regional inequality levels 247 14.4 Spatial Gini coefficients and the decomposition of the Theil index for Croatia (1969–2008) 248 Notes on Contributors Editors Will Bartlett is Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy of South East Europe at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Honorary Professor at both the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He has an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an M.Sc. from the University of London and a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool. He has lectured in Development Economics and Comparative Economic Systems at the Universities of Southampton, Bath and Bristol, and from 1983 to 1986 was Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy. His current research covers economic and social development in South East Europe. His book Europe’s Troubled Region: Economic Development, Institutional Reform, and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans was published by Routledge in 2008. His research has been funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy and he has published widely in refereed academic journals. He has also applied his research knowl- edge in practice as a consultant and senior advisor to the European Commission, European Parliament, European Training Foundation, World Bank, OECD and other international organizations. Sanja Malekovic´ is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for International Relations, Zagreb. She holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics, Zagreb, on The New Approach to Regional Development in Croatia (1997). She has been visiting lecturer at the Postgraduate Course on European Studies at the University of Padua (EU Cohesion Policy) and is currently lecturer at the Postgraduate Course on EU Economics at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She has been engaged as team leader and expert on a number of projects supported by the EC, UNDP, World Bank, ILO, and Croatian central and regional government insti- tutions related to regional development policy, the development of entrepreneurship, as well as evaluation of development programmes. Her most recent research contributions relate to local and regional development, regional policy and decentralization, regional competi- tiveness and evaluation of development programmes. ix

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