Full Description
The book analyses state of play regarding regional level of government in the countries of South East Europe, particularly countries succeeding former Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and North Macedonia) using the research methods from the fields of Law, Public Administration and Political Science. The book offers fresh analytical perspective of the regional self-government issues in these countries, out of which every country has particular issues to deal with. Be it controversial territorial restructuring debate (Croatia), complex institutional system (B&H), dealing with territorial concentrated ethnic minorities (Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia) or the issue of small size and non/existence of regional forces (Slovenia, Montenegro). Besides the introductory (methodological) and concluding (synthesis, trends and issues for further research) chapters, the book contains country chapters written by experts from a particular country in the region who follow the same chapter structure which allows further comparisons. Besides that, the book contains three chapters on several cross-cutting issues such as position of ethnic minorities and their territorial (regional) concentration and institutional representation in the overall system of local and regional self-government, analysis of regional political parties and movements that influence the debate in these countries, and the analysis of position and interplay of decontenrated state administration and regional self-government in analysed countries.
Contents
Part I Introduction.- Vedran Đulabić: Study of regionalism and regional self-government in South-Eastern Europe.- Part II Country experiences.- Vedran Đulabić: Regionalisation and regional self-government in Bosnia and Herzegovina: complex institutions in a highly complex and divided state.- Mihovil Škarica: Disputes about regionalisation and regional self-government in Croatia.- Petrit Nimani: Local and regional self-government in Kosovo: building democratic institutions in a young state.- Veran Stančetić: Local and regional self-government in Montenegro.- Milena Gjurovska: Institutions of territorial self-government in North Macedonia: is there need for a change.- Jelena Jerinić: Regional self-government in Serbia: at odds with reality.- Iztok Rakar, Irena Bačlija Brajnik: Slovenian regional self-government that lives only in (draft) laws.- Part III Cross-cutting issues.- Tijana Vukojičić Tomić, Ružica Jakešević, Siniša Tatalović: Regionalism and regional self-government as potential answer to position of ethnic minorities in the South-Eastern Europe.- Višeslav Raos: Regional Political Movements in the South-Eastern Europe.- Iva Lopižić: Interplay between deconcentrated state administration and regional self-government in the South-Eastern European countries.- Part IV Conclusion.- Vedran Đulabić: Common roots but different paths of regionalism and regional self-government in South-Eastern Europe.
