Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Politics, Policies and Legal Measures -- The National Politics of Early Post-Socialism -- Poland -- Hungary -- Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Republics -- Bulgaria --...

The study focuses on budget policy implementation at the level of local governments in Slovakia in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. The research problem focuses on identifying shortfalls in initially planned funds to local government budgets caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the potential...