William Bartlett is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is coordinator of the LSEE Research Network on Social Cohesion in South East Europe and has carried out numerous research and consultancy projects, including those for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the European Training Foundation, UNDP and UNICEF. Sanja Kmezić is Lecturer at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria. Kmezić is a co-founder of the non-profit think tank European Research Academy Belgrade (EURAK), Serbia and has worked as an advisor on various international development programmes aimed at local government and public administration reform. Katarina Đulić is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration in Belgrade, Serbia. She is also a co-founder of EURAK and has carried out numerous consultancy projects for the International Finance Corporation, USAID and SECO aimed at governance and public financial management reform.

• Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Decentralisation and Local Government Finance: An Overview.- Part I: Europeanisation and the Political Economy of Decentralisation.- Chapter 2: Slovenia: Vertical Imbalance in Local Government Financing.- Chapter 3: Croatia: Instruments of Fiscal Equalisation.- Part II: Crisis, Policy Reversals and Local Government Debt.- Chapter 4: Serbia: Local Government Financing and Non-Transparency of Fiscal Data.- Chapter 5. Montenegro: Volatile Municipal Revenues.- Chapter 6: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Local Government Debt.- Part III: Local Governments in Transition and the Political Economy of Ethnicity.- Chapter 7: Macedonia: Local Government Efficiency and Ethnic Fragmentation.- Chapter 8: Kosovo: Can Decentralisation Resolve Ethnic Conflict?.- Part IV: Albania: Struggling with the Legacy of Extreme Centralisation.- Chapter 9: Albania: Aligning Territorial and Fiscal Decentralisation.- Part V: Conclusions.- Chapter 10: Comparative Conclusions: Decentralisation and Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe.

William Bartlett is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is coordinator of the LSEE Research Network on Social Cohesion in South East Europe and has carried out numerous research and consultancy projects, including those for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the European Training Foundation, UNDP and UNICEF. Sanja Kmezić is Lecturer at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria. Kmezić is a co-founder of the non-profit think tank European Research Academy Belgrade (EURAK), Serbia and has worked as an advisor on various international development programmes aimed at local government and public administration reform. Katarina Đulić is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration in Belgrade, Serbia. She is also a co-founder of EURAK and has carried out numerous consultancy projects for the International Finance Corporation, USAID and SECO aimed at governance and public financial management reform.

• Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Decentralisation and Local Government Finance: An Overview.- Part I: Europeanisation and the Political Economy of Decentralisation.- Chapter 2: Slovenia: Vertical Imbalance in Local Government Financing.- Chapter 3: Croatia: Instruments of Fiscal Equalisation.- Part II: Crisis, Policy Reversals and Local Government Debt.- Chapter 4: Serbia: Local Government Financing and Non-Transparency of Fiscal Data.- Chapter 5. Montenegro: Volatile Municipal Revenues.- Chapter 6: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Local Government Debt.- Part III: Local Governments in Transition and the Political Economy of Ethnicity.- Chapter 7: Macedonia: Local Government Efficiency and Ethnic Fragmentation.- Chapter 8: Kosovo: Can Decentralisation Resolve Ethnic Conflict?.- Part IV: Albania: Struggling with the Legacy of Extreme Centralisation.- Chapter 9: Albania: Aligning Territorial and Fiscal Decentralisation.- Part V: Conclusions.- Chapter 10: Comparative Conclusions: Decentralisation and Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe.