Crafting Democracy: Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe

By Jennifer Yoder

A decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of democratization and marketization in East Central Europe, a handful of countries introduced territorial and administrative reforms and created regional "self-governments" autonomous subnational-level assemblies elected by universal suffrage. This comparative study of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary explores the reasons for these reforms and their consequences for post-communist democracies. In the context of the long-standing development of regions in Western Europe, Jennifer A. Yoder argues that a new approach is needed to explain recent regional reforms--and their wide variablity--in post-communist Europe. Her study offers a nuanced and authoritative account of a category of reforms that gets to the heart of democratization after communism: how to distribute authority within a new system.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442215984
• ISBN13: 9781442215986
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"