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Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Scale and democracy in Turkish local governments: The case of the amalgamation initiative in Konya province
Efficiency and democracy are two crucial concepts during the provision of local goods and services in many developed and developing local government systems. Policy makers, quite often, appear to make delicate choices between these two rival elements. Turkey is no exception as there is always scarcity of financial sources and...
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
The triple crisis in Hungary: The “Backsliding” of Hungarian Democracy after Twenty Years
This paper tries to point out that the three consecutive crises (the triple crisis) in the New Member States (NMS) have claimed the heavy social price that has been responsible for the drastic “backsliding of the new democracies”. These countries underwent a transformation recession in the early nineties and, once...
