Decentralisation in Kosovo: challenges of reforming the local level

Studies of external democracy assistance and the promotion of good governance have tended to focus on the transformation of central government institutions and the interaction between state and non-state actors at this level. Although local institutions, organisation and contexts are not ignored as such, the emergence of multi-level governance is implicitly predicted to occur at a later stage, once reforms have been established at the core. As this paper demonstrates, local governance reform arguably constitutes a much greater challenge...