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In this chapter I describe how centre-periphery relations have evolved in former Yugoslavia, with particular focus on Istria and Vojvodina. The objective is to show to what extent path-dependent processes and institutions have shaped these relations. As a corollary, I illustrate the arguments that were used historically to justify changes to the status quo of centre-periphery relations. It is this very discourse that political elites have been using instrumentally since the late 1980s in order to mobilize for or against decentralization.1
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Kleibrink, A. (2015). The Role of Institutional Legacies from Yugoslav Decentralization. In: Political Elites and Decentralization Reforms in the Post-Socialist Balkans. New Perspectives on South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137495723_3
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