An empirical typology of local government systems in Eastern Europe

P Swianiewicz - Local Government Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The most widely used typologies of European local government systems are based on
research conducted in the 1980s. The most popular are those of Page and Goldsmith …

Attitudes towards citizen participation in the local decision-making process: A comparative analysis

D Jurlina Alibegović, S Slijepčević - Društvena istraživanja: časopis za …, 2018 - ceeol.com
A very important pillar of democracy is the involvement of citizens in the political decision-
making process. The change from" government" to" governance", which has been also …

Interrupting the neoliberal masculine state machinery? Strategic selectivities and municipalist practice in Barcelona and Zagreb

M Sarnow, N Tiedemann - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
All municipalist initiatives are confronted with what Marx called the 'state machinery': an
ensemble of apparatuses protecting the status quo of capitalist accumulation. It is difficult for …

Dif' G'one' and Semiotic Calquing A Signography of the Linguistic Landscape of the Navajo Nation

AK Webster - Journal of Anthropological Research, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
In this article, I discuss the linguistic landscape of officially sanctioned street name signage
on the Navajo Nation. Given the Navajo Nation's Enhanced 9-1-1 and Rural Addressing …

Regional development and decentralization–two options to overcome lack of funding

DJ Alibegovic, S Slijepčevic, Ž Kordej-De Villa - Transylvanian Review of …, 2014 - rtsa.ro
Decentralization can be generally described as a process in which selected functions are
assigned to sub-national units. The literature identifies a number of positive consequences …

A proposal for a new administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Croatia

IR Bakarić - Economic research-Ekonomska istraživanja, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract he article deals with a proposal of a new administrative-territorial division at
regional self-government level in the Republic of Croatia. The main aim of the paper is to …

Less is more: Decentralization in Croatia and its impact on regional development

DJ Alibegović - Decentralization and local development in South East …, 2013 - Springer
Fiscal decentralization tendencies and local government reform can be seen in countries
throughout the world, including industrialized countries, developing and transition countries …

The multi-level nature of spatial planning and territorial governance

W Zonneveld, D Stead - Spatial Planning Systems in Europe, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Local land use plans stipulating where and how development may take place can be found
across all European countries (Nadin et al., 2018; Ryser and Franchini, 2015). In some …

Decentralisation of cultural policy and participatory governance in culture–examples of Croatian practices

A Žuvela - 2021 - repozitorij.unizd.hr
Sažetak This thesis studies decentralisation of cultural policy and participatory cultural
governance in Croatia from 2000 to 2017. Decentralization as a process implies territorial …

[PDF][PDF] Think Croatian, Act Slavonian: The Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja as a Regionalist Patriot

M Kukec - 2013 - etd.ceu.edu
There has recently been an upsurge of the territorial party competition in Europe, and
Croatia has followed the trend. This work, by following the framework of external and internal …