Titlebook: Political Elites and Decentralization Reforms in the Post-Socialist Balkans; Regional Patronage N Alexander Kleibrink Book 2015 The Editor(

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A Framework for Studying Elite Access to Resources,ts their shortcomings in explaining the variation found in Serbia and Croatia. While they provide structural context for understanding demands for decentralization more broadly they have less application to the role of agency in determining why some courses of action are preferred by political elite

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The Role of Institutional Legacies from Yugoslav Decentralization,ive is to show to what extent path-dependent processes and institutions have shaped these relations. As a corollary, I illustrate the arguments that were used historically to justify changes to the status quo of centre-periphery relations. It is this very discourse that political elites have been us

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Access to Electoral Resources,e, political elites and parties form coalitions and thus gain access to electoral resources. At the same time, coalition-building across the centre-periphery divide has not been embedded in stable institutions as it had been in most of the socialist period. In that sense, the distribution of elector

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Information Exchange and Cooperation,nes the informal relations of political actors beyond purely electoral considerations. I show how political elites and parties interact between national and regional levels. The main assumption is that repeated and strong interactions reduce the uncertainty of unintended consequences that reforms ma

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Access to Patronage Resources,ources. Patronage is a means for elites to politicize the public sector and thus gain influence over it. Decentralization reforms create many new opportunities for appointing people in state institutions at subnational levels of government. In Serbia, elites in the centre could be sure of their pers

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Conclusions,from the periphery? In this book, I have answered this question by conducting a focused comparison of varying outcomes of decentralization reforms in Serbia and Croatia. I have argued that shared elite access to resources is associated with different kinds of decentralization reforms in transition s

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