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Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................................7 SECTION I Regional Reforms and their Consequences Consolidation in Local Government: An International Comparison of Arguments and Practices Michiel S. de Vries, Iwona Sobis .......................................................................... 15 Re-thinking the Roles of Regional Councillors in Poland: Evidence from Wielkopolskie and Lubelskie Regional Assemblies Katarzyna Radzik-Maruszak ............................................................................. 33 The Impact of Historical Heritage of Changing Territorial- Administrative Division on the Country’s Decentralisation Performance Gerda Zigiene ...................................................................................................... 51 A Chance to Restart Public Administration Reform in Slovakia Tomáš Jacko, Ľudmila Malíková ........................................................................ 67 The End of Regionalism in Hungary ? An Assessment of Local Governance Before and After Edit Somlyódyné Pfeil ......................................................................................... 87 Regionalisation of the Civil Service in the Russian Federation Alexey Barabashev ............................................................................................ 109 SECTION II Regional Development and Cohesion Policy Macro-Regions: Regional Integration Within and Beyond the EU Nico Groenendijk .............................................................................................. 121 The Role of Hybrid Partnership in the Management of Development Aleksander Noworól .......................................................................................... 147 Development Policy in an Age of Austerity – Result-orientation, Effectiveness and Sustainability Györgyi Nyikos .................................................................................................. 165 Tax Sharing as an Instrument of Interregional Fiscal Equalisation Soňa Čapková, Lucia Rončáková ..................................................................... 187 Local Governments as the Main Actors of Regional Development in Lithuania Gabriele Burbulyte-Tsiskarishvili, Audrius Kutkaitis, Inga Normante .......... 199 Enhancing Local Governance through Three-Sector Partnerships ? The Case of the Podkarpackie Region (Poland) Agnieszka Pawlowska, Anna Gasior-Niemiec, Anna Kolomycew .................. 213 The Role of Local Public Administration in Building Up Social Economy in Romania Alina Georgiana Profiroiu, Constantin Marius Profiroiu, Tudorel Andrei .... 229 Regional Partnerships, Foreign Investments and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Nokia in Cluj County, Romania David Barnes , Octavian Moldovan, Erzsébet Pocsveiler ................................ 249 Regional Governance and Community-Led Local Development: Miles Apart ? Frans Jorna ........................................................................................................ 275 New Approaches and Instruments for Specific Territories’ Management in Bulgaria: Key Points of the Regional Policy under Reformation Mariya Velikova, Daniela Mihaleva ................................................................ 289 Administrative Conflicts in Bulgarian Regional Development Policy – Current Situation, Trends, Possible Solutions Ivanka Bankova ................................................................................................ 305 Introduction Public administrations in the member states of the EU underwent a strong conver- gence process, the reason being that the implementation of EU common policies depends mainly on the performance of national administrations. The so-called Eu- ropean administrative space became a rather informal project, relying on the rela- tionships between the different tiers of governance (multilevel governance, MLG), as well as on the elaboration of common procedural and professional standards. The European cohesion policy has had an intensive invasive effect on national administrations, especially in central and eastern European countries, which can be explained by the strong motivation to acquire development resources eligible for less developed regions. Europeanisation was therefore generated directly by the management regime of the Structural Funds. As a result of the European principles of subsidiarity and partnership, including the regions in the decision-making pro- cesses of the Union, the regions became more virulent factors of multilevel govern- ance. The delimitation of the so-called NUTS 2 regions, in compliance with the reg- ulations of the European Union, has become, in several countries, the basis of their territorial reforms of public administration. The establishment of various regional consultative bodies, following the