MULTI – LEVEL GOVERNANCE TOWARDS REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN POSTCOMMUNIST COUNTRIES
MULTI – LEVEL GOVERNANCE TOWARDS REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN POSTCOMMUNIST COUNTRIES
Author(s): Zuzana Dvořáková-Lišková, Petra Pártlová, Alfréd KROGMANNSubject(s): Economy
Published by: Academia de Studii Economice - Centrul de Cercetare in Administratie si Servicii Publice (CCASP)
Keywords: multi – level governance; environment; scenarios; management
Summary/Abstract: The study represents an attempt to analyze process of multi-level governance (MLG) in two post-communist countries: Czech Republic and Slovakia. MLG process has been something unknown in Central Europe countries to the end of the year 1989, influenced by communists´ ideology of centralization every aspect of social and political life. Interview participants in figure of 30 stakeholders were engaged in workshops as parts of the process and they discussed initial scenario versions and criteria choice which were offered to them for analyzing. There were developed 5 alternative scenarios of tourism development. Scenarios of systematic tourism development based on the rules of sustainable community development and common decision making within the regions took the most positive community evaluation. Empirical implementation of MLG, discussions and agreements of those interested in regional development in order shows potential and took great interest and acceptation among community participants in the both regions.
Journal: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management
- Issue Year: 13/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 5-20
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English