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Local government reforms have been undertaken in all three Baltic countries — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. The implementation of local government reforms is one of the most important tasks in the transition period from a command economy to a free market economy. There are some common features of organization of local government reforms in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. But simultaneously each Baltic state has a different organization of the local government system.
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Vanags, E., Vilka, I. (2003). Local government reform in the Baltic countries. In: Kersting, N., Vetter, A. (eds) Reforming Local Government in Europe. Urban and Research International, vol 4. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11258-7_15
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