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.

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Dr. Vedran Dulabic, full professor at the Chair for Administrative Science at the Faculty of Law Zagreb. Teaches and publishes books and articles on regionalism and regional self-government, multi-level governance, administrative aspects of regional/cohesion policy of the EU, local and regional self-government, modernization of public administration and administrative procedure, public services (services of general interest) and other public administration related topics. Included in several internationally funded scientific and policy projects (financed by the EU, OECD/Sigma, World Bank, COST programme, bilateral projects with France, Slovenia, project funded by civil society organisations, local and regional self-government, etc.) devoted to reform of public administration, local and regional self-government, regional policy and administrative procedure. Editor-in-chief of the Croatian and Comparative Public Administration, journal for theory and practice of public administration and editor of two book series Manuals for in-service training and Scientific papers published by Institute for Public Administration Zagreb.