Decentralisation and regionalisation after communism: Administrative and territorial reform in Poland and the Czech Republic

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-286

  Yoder, Jennifer A ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM; DECENTRALIZATION; POST-COMMUNISM; REGIONALIZATION;

CZECH REPUBLIC; POLAND;

EID: 0037367427     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0966813032000055877     Document Type: Article

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