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Community Development Journal Advance Access published online on May 22, 2008
Community Development Journal, doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn007
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Post-Socialist Community Action in Lithuania

Áine Macken Walsh

Address for correspondence: email: aine.mackenwalsh@teagasc.ie

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   Introduction
 
Post-socialist rural areas in Lithuania have been incorporated into the European Union at a time when local non-statutory organizations have increased decision-making power in the rural development process. In the EU15, community-level action is known to address and to have considerable success in impacting on a broad spectrum of local development problems in the economic, social, and cultural spheres. In the post-socialist context, where the private and non-governmental sectors have been developing since the transition period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it is likely that newly established community organizations are drawing from different customs, skills, and experiences in how they form their mandates for the purposes of consolidating local collective action.

EU enlargement provides new ground for exploring alternative traditions of rural collective action, particular to the socialist political histories of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In a context where there is scarce tradition of non-statutory third-sector interest . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The EU governance and rural development model and the Baltic RPP
 

   Community action in the Ukmerge district: case-study overview
 
The Cultural House
Villagers' perceptions of statutory and non-statutory responsibilities
The role of the RPP

   Conclusion
 

   Funding
 

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