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

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Access to Electoral Resources,al resources between centre and periphery has had to compensate partly for the lack of or weak institutions. This distribution constitutes the basis for more informal centre-periphery relations and the division of patronage resources that will be dealt with in the subsequent two chapters.

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Access to Patronage Resources,istent access to patronage resources in Vojvodina also after decentralization took place. In Croatia, on the other hand, patronage resources in Istria were mainly confined to regionalist parties, leaving little incentives for elites in the centre to support more far-reaching decentralization.

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Conclusions,orms by explicating the causal chain that has led to a unitary decentralized state in Croatia, in contrast to a regionalized state in Serbia. By comparing one region in each country, I have illustrated that political elites in the centre anticipated their access to patronage resources before agreeing to the decentralization of powers to regions.

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Book 2015Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government. This book provides an innovative analysis of such decentralisation in transition states in the Balkans. Using new and rich data, it shows how political elites use decentralisation strategically to ensure their access to state resources.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137495723Political elites; decentralisation; Balkans; Serbia; Croatia; transition states; local government; regional

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Centre-Periphery Relations in the Balkans, central concern for national governments stands out: the core objective to consolidate the newly acquired national statehood and unity. In this endeavour, elites in the central government (centre) are in a continuous struggle with elites in the state’s subnational units (periphery). Nationalist eli