EU accession has had an ambiguous impact on regionalization in the Czech Republic. While EU membership necessitated the creation of regional administrative structures to manage the Structural Funds, the role of new regional authorities was often undermined by the centralized nature of the accession process itself. Developments since accession have created a new dynamic in the debate over region...

Spring | Summer 2010 121 This article analyzes the dynamics of development, democracy, and conflict in Georgia, focusing on variation in state capacity, political institutions and varieties of nationalism. Whereas Georgia’s ethnic nationalism substituted for political institutions in the 1990s, the state’s enhanced administrative capacities after 2003 inhibited it from returning to ethnic natio...

Rapid economic growth has always entailed serious disruption: environmental, ideological, and political. As a result the relationship between economic growth and public health is complex since such disruption always threatens to spill over into deprivation, disease and death. The populations of most current high-income, high-life expectancy countries of 'the West' endured several decades of sev...

Administrative procedures are often hailed as the solution to managing an unruly bureaucracy, but they are not self-executing. Rather, they must be implemented by the very agencies whose behavior they are designed to constrain. Further, the expert bureaucrats that oversee these processes have superior insight on how these different procedures tend to play out and can use this information to ste...

Good governance has been the subject of theoretical and pragmatic discourses during the last three decades. Recently the indeterminate terms "Governance" and Good governance are being gradually used, in the literature of political science, administrative sciences and development studies. It is being increasingly recognized that Good governance is legitimate, accountable and effective ways of ob...

Little quantitative research has been devoted to voluntary climate actions at the local level in comparison to those at federal and state levels. It is unclear why some cities act as leaders in the fight against climate change, some act as followers, while others remain laggards. This study empirically tests some hypotheses about local political will to mitigate climate change. Applying a survi...

This article discusses practices, opportunities and challenges in local eGovernment project management; the development towards eGovernment and “the 24/7 agency”. Analyzing a case against eGovernment success factors we find seven “critical issues”; political timing, resource allocation, political mandate, distinction between administrative and political responsibilities, coordination of departm...

governing includes administrative and political processesand mechanisms which provide the conditions for citizens and socialgroups to discuss their interests reduce the differences and ensure theirrights. in the age of information and communication technologies, inorder to achieve this aim, public institutions are constrained to havedigital portals. these portals must comply with some standards...