Governance in Transition - Buček, Ján.; Ryder, Andrew; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
Introduction -- Part I: Governance, Intergovernmental Relations, and Development -- Top Down and Bottom Up Metropolitan Integration in Poland -- The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy: Implementation Challenges and Breakthroughs -- Governmental Devolution as a Motor of Local Development -- Theories of Metropolitan Government and the Post-Socialist Experience: The Case of the Poznan Metropolitan Area -- Regional Elites, Networks and the Beauty of Regionalism in Hungary -- Rural Governance in the New EU Member States: The Experience of the Polish LEADER + Pilot Programme (2004-2008) -- Part II: Crossborder and International Co-Operation in Development -- Strategic Cooperation Between Regions - Building and Using Transnational Relations -- Changing Patterns of City-Hinterland Relations in Central and East European Borderlands: Szczecin on the Edge of Poland and Germany -- Transformation Processes in the Former Black Triangle -- The Influence of Regional Identities on Spatial Development - A Challenge for Regional Governance Processes in Cross-Border Regions? -- Part III -- Administrative Systems, Services Delivery and Local Finance -- The Empowerment of Local Democracy and the Decentralisation of Service Delivery in Local Government Reform: The Evidence from Portugal.-Municipal Bonds in Hungary: Constraints and Challenges -- Municipal Assets During the Post-Socialist Transition in Slovakia -- Governing the Transformation of the Built Environment in Post-Socialist Bratislava.
Keywords: Economic geology; Economic Geology