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Forward, Libor Kudlacek: local government in Europe - common directionsof change; European local government systems. Part 1 Dimensions ofdevelopment in the 1990s: new tendencies of local governmentdevelopment in Europe; economic restructuring and the capitalistperiphery - implications for Eastern Europe; free markets andcentralized political power - a British paradox; local governmentrole-reversed in the new contract culture, Tim Williams; management,tiers, size and amalgamations of local government; large city reforms;small communes and rural areas - decentralization reforms in France;decentralizing federal states - the experience of Austria; federalismand change. Part 2 East and Central Europe experiences: localgovernment reform in Central and Eastern Europe; rebuilding localgovernment in Poland; local government reform in Hungary; developmentof local government finance in Hungary; Czechoslovakia - regional andlocal government reform since 1989; territorial organization of society- Czechoslovak developments; development of local government in Russiaand the CIS; regional development in the former USSR.