0160689 - SOU-Z 20033002 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Illner, Michal
Devolution of Government in the Ex-Communist Countries: Some Explanatory Frameworks.
Local Democracy in Post-Communist Europe. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2003 - (Baldersheim, H.; Illner, M.; Wollmann, H.), s. 9-28. ISBN 3-8100-3192-5
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA403/00/1713
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z7028912
Keywords : devolution * explanatory frameworks * post-communist Europe
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography

Political and administrative decentralization in the ex-communist countries is approached as part of the over-all societal transformation which has been going on since the early 90s. Four explanatory frameworks are discussed which were proposed or actually used in explaining the tranformation and can be applied to conceptualize devolution of government: the 'legacies' approach, the 'incongruent speeds of change' approach, the 'structural adaptation' approach and the 'modernization' approach. In passing, also the innovation, globalization, consolidation and localism perspectives are mentoned.
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