Subject(s): Local government in Europe. -- Post-communism in Europe. -- . Administration locale in Europe -- Local government in Europe, European local government systems -- Dimensions of development in 1990s : New tendencies of local government development in Europe, economic restructuring and capitalist periphery- implications for eastern Europe, free markets and centralized political power in Britain, local government role reversal in new contract culture, management of local government, large city reforms, small communes and rural areas- decentralization reforms in France, decentralizing federal states in Austria, federalism and change -- East and central European experiences : Local government reform in central and eastern Europe, rebuilding local government in Poland, local government reform in Hungary, development of local government finance in Hungary, regional and local government reform in Czechoslovakia, territorial organization of society, development of local government in Russia and CIS, regional development in former USSR