Regional Diversity and Local Development in the New Member States

This book analyzes regional and local models of development, in the context of existing socio-economic disparities and the impact of EU enlargement and European policy, offering a comparative and in-depth analysis of the distinct nature of regional differences within Central and Eastern Europe.

IVO BI?ANI? Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia; Recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary ANNA G?SIOR-NIEMIEC Research Associate, European Studies Unit, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rzeszów, Poland GRZEGORZ GORZELAK Professor of economics, specialising in regional and local development and policies; Director of the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland CHIARA GUGLIELMETTI Researcher, School on Local Development, University of Trento, Italy PETER HUBER Researcher, Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria SORIN IONITA Research Director, Romanian Academic Society, Romania; Associate Lecturer at the National School of Government, Bucharest, and Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania GRZEGORZ W. KOLODKO Founder and Director of TIGER Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Kozminski Business School, Warsaw, Poland PETR PAVLÍNEK Professor of Geography, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA VEDRANA PRIBI?EVI? Collaborator and tutor, Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia ÉVA RUTTKAY Lecturer, Education Centre for the Hungarian Public Servants and the Modern Economies of Business High School, Tatabánya, Hungary; Lecturer, University of Babes-Bólyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ALEKSANDER SURDEJ Professor of European Public Policies, Cracow University of Economics, Poland.