Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Sara Parolari -- I. Central and Eastern Europe Regional Reforms: From Dismantling a Soviet Model to Europeanizing a National One / Anatoliy Kruglashov -- II. EU Regional Policy and the Process of Institution-Building in Central and Eastern European Countries / Ekaterina Domorenok -- III. Decentralization and Local Development: Antecedents, Challenges and Current Organizational Forms / Gert Guri and Bruno Dallago -- IV. The English Prototype. Non-Political and Non-Administrative Decentralization as a Model for Central and Eastern European Countries? / Sara Parolari -- V. Decentralization and Regional Development in Romania. An Unfinished Reform in Search of a “European\' Model / Marius Suciu -- VI. The Recentralization of Economic Development in Hungary / Zoltán Pogátsa -- VII. Securing Growth and Cohesion in Europeanized Conditions. The Role of Regional Development Bodies in Poland / Krzysztof Szczerski -- VIII. Regionalization and Regional Development in Serbia / Chiara Guglielmetti and Sonja Avlijaš -- Concluding Remarks. New Regionalism in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Traditional Models and Beyond / Francesco Palermo -- Index List.

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Based on a multidisciplinary analysis, the book presents a contemporary view of the main challenges facing regional development and regional policy in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly considering to what extent domestic and non-domestic legacies have affected the regionalization process in this area. The volume mainly focuses on the institutional arrangements at regional level, analyzing the motives, procedures and outcomes of either political or administrative reforms introduced in the latest years. The focus are the former communist countries, both members of the EU and not (case studies selected: Romania, Hungary, Poland and Serbia), with a specific chapter concentrating on a case study from the West – England – whose process of regionalization provides a useful point of reference for the experiences of its Central-East counterparts.