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Governance in Transition

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Editors:
  1. Ján Buček

    1. Department of Human Geography and Demogeography, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

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  2. Andrew Ryder

    1. Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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  • Offers a practical perspective on current practice and problems in local government reform
  • Includes material from a variety of international contexts
  • Discusses a wide range of administrative and financial issues
  • Informs policy makers of best practice and problems in implementing administrative reforms

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Ryder
    Pages 1-15

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 323-341
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About this book

This book looks at experience in government restructuring and devolution from a variety of national and international perspectives, both within the European Union and elsewhere, focusing on lessons learned and ways forward.Since the 1980s, there has been a global trend to give more power to local governments. Even in Korea and the United Kingdom, the most centralised countries in the OECD, local government powers have increased, with substantial economic benefits. Within the European Union, the principle of subsidiarity has enshrined the idea of devolution. New member states, particularly in central and eastern Europe, have significantly created new and self-sufficient local and regional governments. However, this process has been complicated. Devolution is not a panacea in its own right, and need not lead to economic growth. While it can encourage savings through collaboration, it can also lead to confused lines of authority and can complicate policy formation and implantation. Devolution can strain local budgets, forcing local governments to rely on their own sources of finance, rather than central government transfers. Suburbanisation, rural depopulation, the growth of some regions, and the decline of others have raised new problems, particularly related to inter-governmental cooperation among local governments and different levels of government. In many cases, an increased number of governments has increased administrative costs.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human Geography and Demogeography, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Ján Buček

  • Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    Andrew Ryder

About the editors

Ján Buček is Associate Professor at the Comenius University in Bratislava. He holds a Ph.D. degree in economic geography at Comenius University. Currently he is Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on the Geography of Governance (since 2008), Vice-President of the Slovak Geographical Society (since 2010) and a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals.
Andrew Ryder is a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Portsmouth. Since 1991, he has also worked as a consultant in regional problems and policies and local government reform for the OECD and other international organisations. He is a member of the International Geographical Union Commission on the Geography of Governance and on the editorial board of several academic journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Governance in Transition

  • Editors: Ján Buček, Andrew Ryder

  • Series Title: Springer Geography

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5503-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5502-4Published: 28 April 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7912-8Published: 09 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5503-1Published: 15 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2194-315X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 341

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economic Geology

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