Regionalism and Regional Self-Government in South-East Europe

<p>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.</p>