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Klemenčić, Mladen, and Željka Richter. "Administrative-territorial division of Croatia." GeoJournal 35, no. 4 (April 1995): 391–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00824344.
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Surnina, Nadezhda, and Elena Tselishcheva. "INTRAREGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL DIVISION: SEMANTIC ASPECT." Bulletin of South Ural State University series "Economics and management" 12, no. 3 (2018): 25–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.14529/em180303.
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Panteleimonova, Lyudmila V. "ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL DIVISION IN THE RSFSR (1920s–1930s)." Historical Search 2, no. 4 (December 20, 2021): 55–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.47026/2712-9454-2021-2-4-55-67.
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The article discusses the process of changes in the administrative-territorial division of the RSFSR in the 20s–30s of the XX century. The article distinguishes several stages. Relying on historiography and sources, the author tries to analyze and summarize the historical experience in reorganization of the RSFSR administrative-territorial system from the “spontaneous” emergence of new administrative-territorial units against the background of the existing old-regime administrative-territorial units to the first consolidation reform, when governorates, volosts, uyezds were finally liquidated, as well as the second reform of the Soviet government, the essence of which was fragmentation. The study shows that all the transformations of the young Soviet republic in the studied area took place in connection with changes in the form of power organization, as well as with a change in the principles of regional policy and the direction of economic development of the country’s territories. At the present stage, opinions on the return to the governorate administration began to appear more and more often in the research literature, which became the subject of a detailed analysis by the author of this work. The article suggests and substantiates possible directions for improving the administrative-territorial division of the RSFSR after the reform in the 1920s–1930s in order to implement the policy of the Bolsheviks and further territorial development of the country. The main approaches to the formation of the RSFSR administrative-territorial division, identification of local socio-economic systems, determination of the optimal size of administrative-territorial entities are highlighted. The interrelation between the administrative-territorial division and economic zone division in Russia is substantiated.
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Bugayev, V. K. "IMPROVING THE ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL DIVISION OF THE USSR." Soviet Geography 32, no. 8 (October 1991): 545–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00385417.1991.10640876.
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Niemczuk, Przemysław. "Determinants of shaping the territorial division – administrative and legal approach." Gubernaculum et Administratio 2(24) (2021): 291–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/gea.2021.02.33.
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The issue of territorial division as a legal issue is one of the key issues in considering the territorial organization of the state. It is one of the most important factors influencing the organization of the state. The process of shaping the territorial division is specific, complex and based on a number of diverse, variable determinants. The determinant of shaping the territorial division is any condition relevant to the territorial structure of the state, reflecting specific needs or values resulting from the specific features of the land. Considering the multiplicity of such premises, the number and variety of these determinants is considerable. The aim of the article is an attempt to identify and systematize these determinants. An attempt will be made to determine the importance of individual determinants on the shape of the territorial division and the relationships between them. On the one hand, these determinants determine the shape of the territorial division, on the other hand, the territorial division influences their formation, change or updating. Therefore, they form a coherent system of mutual response to the needs of shaping the territorial structure of the state.
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Havriushyn, O. "Mapping the spatial and temporal distribution of changes in the administrative-territorial division." Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology 27, no. 2 (November 2, 2018): 213–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/111846.
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The article is devoted to the development of the content of generalized maps on the history of administrative-territorial division. The purpose of such maps is to reflect the features of the space-time distribution of administrative changes.We have found that it is better to link indicators of dynamics to such spatial objects as the territories of modern administrative-territorial units (or the territory of historical administrative-territorial ones as of a certain date), to polygons of a single history of administrative membership, to administrative-territorial units as dynamic objects.Under the polygons of a single history of administrative ownership, we mean the territories identified during the analysis, all points within which belonged to the same administrative-territorial unit at any time during the analyzed period. Unlike polygons of the smallest common geometry (used in the method of space-time composites), such objects can be allocated for different periods of time and for different administrative levels.For such spatial objects, we propose to calculate and display on the map the number ofchanges in administrative ownership or the total duration of belonging to some administrative-territorial unit (usually, a high level). For larger static areas than the polygons of a single history of administrative affiliation, we suggest calculating and displaying on the map the indicator of administrative variability and the average duration of ownership. In our opinion, the indicator of administrative variability should consider the size of the analyzed territory, the number and volume of spatial changes. We have developed a formula for calculating such an indicator.The indicators that we calculate for historical administrative-territorial units on the map are dis- played within the static contour. However, these indicators are calculated for a dynamic object. These indicators are: the number of changes, the total number of changes in parameters, the total number of dates of change, the spatial configuration variability index, the area-weighted average area and its relation to the modern one. We propose to calculate the index of the variability of the configuration of the administrative-territorial unit as the sum of the relations of the areas of the reassigned territories to the areas of the administrative-territorial unit at the time before the change. Since different administrative-territorial units have different duration of existence, in our opinion, it is important to analyze not only the quantity but also the intensity of the changes. To reflect on the map the course of changes in the administrative-territorial unit in time, we developed a timeline-based chart.
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Курілов, Ю. Ю. "Administrative reform in Ukraine: from its origins to the future." Public administration aspects 7, no. 9-10 (November 25, 2019): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/151949.
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In general, this article reveals the political meaning of administrative reforms and administrative divisions in some countries of Europe and Asia. A special subject of research is administrative reform and the reform of regionalization in the unitary countries, their path to regionalism and greater democratization at the level of regional governance. Administrative reform and the reform of decentralization of power have ripened in Ukraine for a long time, and even at the present stage, these reforms are inherent in some problems. This work reveals all the functional and historical-ethnographic content of administrative reform in Ukraine. The study offers a pilot map of the administrative division of regions and subregional entities in Ukraine, according to Western trends in administrative division. The historical, national foundations of administrative reform and decentralization reforms in Ukraine are interesting, as well as external factors such as European integration, which may affect the formation of the concept of administrative division in Ukraine, both from a historical retrospective and futurism in this matter, as well as from a functional point of view. In general, the Ukrainian space is inherent in some uncertainty and differences in conceptual issues of reforming the administrative-territorial structure of the state. The study analyzes promising developments in the field of reforming of the administrative-territorial divisions and suggests some new trends in possible areas of reform. First of all, the author is trying to restore order about how European trends and ideas can be expressed in the domestic environment. Some legislative initiatives are analyzed and it is proposed to highlight the historical and functional meaning of the concept of a region in legislation. It also analyzes the possible impact of administrative reform on the reforms of various branches of government. In general, the study proposes a qualitative modernization of the system of administrative-territorial construction in Ukraine. In fact, reforming the administrative-territorial structure on the basis of universally recognized world trends can significantly streamline national, regional, subregional and local governance in Ukraine, and bring it to a new level. Also, these reforms carry some modernization of regional economic policy, which the domestic space needs in the face of modern problems.
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Wlaźlak, Władysław P. "Zmiany administracyjno-terytorialne województwa łódzkiego w latach 1919–2002." Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. Seria Prawnicza. Prawo 30 (2020): 316–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/znurprawo.2020.30.21.
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The article analyzes the administrative and territorial structure of the Lodz Voivodship over almost a hundred years of its existence in various political configurations. In the interwar period, after the creation of the voivodship, numerous changes were made in its territorial structure. Unfortunately, the Nazi occupation disintegrated all those administrative efforts. After regaining independence, the previous solutions were returned, and then numerous reforms were carried out, creating new poviats and replacing the communes with small clusters. Later, the communal structure was returned, however, poviats were liquidated by establishing a two-level administrative division. Its consequence was the division of the Lodz voivodship between several other ones, while in the center there was created a small voivodship with the capital in Lodz. As a result of political changes in the late 1990s, the three-level administrative division was reactivated. A large Lodz voivodship was created again, divided into poviats and communes. Its administrative and territorial structure, as well as external borders largely resemble previous solutions. Despite the administrative reforms carried out in various political and systematic configurations, it was possible to maintain the territorial cohesion of the area in question.
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Gibson, A. "Territorial continuity and the administrative division of Lochtayside, 1769." Scottish Geographical Magazine 106, no. 3 (December 1990): 174–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00369229018736796.
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Kozak, Taras, and Oksana Sklyarska. "Administrative and territorial changes of public welfare of Zhovkva district and its social and geographical consequences during XIX–XX cent." Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geography, no. 42 (October 15, 2013): 196–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vgg.2013.42.1858.
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Historical analysis of administrative and territorial public welfare was fulfilled on the territory of Zhovkva district. The drawbacks of division have been defined and the interdependence between the administrative and territorial changes and population of district settlements has been established. The recommendations concerning the improvement of administrative and territorial public welfare in Zhovkva district have been defined on the basis of studying the influence of administrative and territorial changes on the social-demographic conseguences. Key words: judicial district, country seat, community, parish, county, district, city, town and village councils.
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Dorzheeva, V. "Background of Magadan oblast formation (1917-1953)." Bulletin of Science and Practice 5, no. 3 (March 15, 2019): 482–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.33619/2414-2948/40/64.
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The article examines the history of the administrative–territorial division of the Russian Northeast in the first half of the twentieth century. The importance of this research stems from the need to analyze the historical experience information of administrative divisions against the background of developing modern federated relations. Chronology wise, the article deals with the period from the year 1917 until the establishment of the present-day boundaries of Magadan Oblast. The article analyses specific aspects of administration in the constituent territories of Magadan Oblast, based on their remoteness from the central authorities, and their economic value. Development of territorial public authorities in the Northeast during the said period was politically motivated. The Civil War saw territories being transferred to the jurisdiction of opposing forces, which affected the administrative division and the system of government authorities. The Institute of the administrative–territorial structure was aimed at the implementation of state functions in connection with certain goals and objectives of a specific historical period of development. The implementation of national policies mediated the creation of national districts. The need of the state for mineral raw materials during the period of industrialization and during the Great Patriotic War led to the creation of special extraterritorial education — Dalstroi. A special period in the history of the region was the Dalstroy era — so-called “Special Combine”, during which a two-level authority system was developed. The administrative–territorial structure was defined by functions of the state, and goals and objectives of the specific historical period. The territorial model of public authority in the Northeastern region fit within the historical context of the country’s contemporary situation.
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Malinovska, Guna, and Anda Zvaigzne. "RESEARCH INTO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL REFORM." Journal of Regional Economic and Social Development 1, no. 13 (December 19, 2021): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/jresd2021vol1.13.6706.
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The research aims to examine the theoretical aspects of administrative and territorial reform as well as to identify the attitudes of Latgale region residents to implementing the new administrative and territorial reform. The following research methods were employed: qualitative content analysis; analysis of legislative enactments and legal documents; a sociological research method – a survey was conducted to identify the opinions and assessments of Latgale residents about the new administrative and territorial reform; descriptive statistics and the graphical method. The research examined theoretical aspects regarding the division of territory into administrative units as well as the concept and definitions of a municipality as an administrative unit. The research analysed the results of the survey of Latgale region residents and identified the respondents’ assessments of implementing the new administrative and territorial reform.
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ZHUK, P. V. "METHODICAL APPROACHES TO THE REFORMING OF ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICTS IN UKRAINE." Economic innovations 21, no. 1(70) (March 20, 2019): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2019.21.1(70).37-42.
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Topicality. The need to reform subregional (district) level of administrative and territorial division of Ukraine is urgent as the result of forming of consolidated territorial communities and the change of liabilities division between the basic and district levels. Transition of the majority of liabilities from local governments to consolidated territorial communities has changed the nature and direction of communication links between the residents and authorities at the district level and contributes to reinforcement of district level of administrative and territorial units. Due to reforming of the system of administrative and territorial structure of Ukraine, a district becomes the territory of localization and functioning of state authorities. The major list of administrative, educational, medical, cultural and other public services will be provided at the basic rather than district levels.Aim and tasks. The paper aims to substantiate and outline the suggestions regarding the methodical approaches to reforming of the system of administrative and territorial units at subregional level in the context of local governance reform and authorities’ territorial organization reform conducted in Ukraine.Research results. The author analyzes the use of the concept of “district” in the context of administrative and territorial division and suggests its definition as administrative and territorial unit that is included into the higher-level units (Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblasts, cities with special status) and is the territorial foundation for organization of activity of state authorities and local governments at subregional levels. District should include all administrative and territorial units of basic level located within its boundaries. Major principles, criteria and requirements to apply while forming the districts are suggested. Among those criteria and requirements, we outline the following: demographic capacity of a territory – usually between 150 and 800 thous. residents; transport accessibility of administrative center of the district from the most remote settlement – up to 1.5 hours (not exceeding 50-60km); the network of districts is reorganized without the change of oblasts’ boundaries; administrative center of a district is usually located closest to geographic (transport-geographical) center of district’s territory; administrative center of a district is usually the settlement with the highest economic and demographic capacity and developed infrastructure, which performed, performs or can perform the functions of subregional administrative center.An algorithm of modeling of new administrative districts is presented as the consequence of steps: 1) finding subregional centers – perspective centers of administrative districts (usually out of oblast significance cities); 2) zone of gravitation to oblast center with the radius up to 60km is considered as the territory of administrative district; 3) outside its boundaries the other districts are allocated according to gravitation zones of other perspective centers of districts; 4) there are also factors that substantially impact their functionality and efficiency of relevant authorities: natural-geographical, transport, economical, managemental, historical, demographic, infrastructural, etc.Conclusion. In author’s opinion, approaches to forming of administrative districts contribute to optimization of their network taking into account the changes in the functions of a district in the system of public authority division. Testing of these methodological approaches in the process of modeling of the new network of administrative regions shows an opportunity and reasonability of their reduction in Lvivska oblast from 20 to 7, in Ivano-Frankivska oblast from 14 to 4, in Ternopilska oblast from 15 to 4.
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Konopski, Michał. "Territorial uncertainty of podlasie region. Regional identity vs. Administrative division." Europa XXI 33 (2017): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/eu21.2017.33.2.
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Kuznetsova, T. O., and L. O. Gordeychenko. "«Todofuken» System and Devolution in Japan." Journal of Law and Administration 16, no. 2 (June 26, 2020): 62–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2020-2-55-62-67.
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Introduction. The article covers the local selfgovernment bodies reform, their functions as well as administrative and territorial division of Japan. The article analyses the process of cooperation between central-government bodies and local bodies while functioning. Taking into account these circumstances, the article covers the laws and provisions of the Japanese Constitution.Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the article is formed by special and specific scientific (comparative legal and technical) methods. The use of the above-mentioned methods made it possible to explore the objects in an interconnected, holistic and comprehensive manner.The results of the research. The structure of the administrative and territorial division of Japan as well as features of cooperation between centralgovernment bodies and local bodies were determined. Discussion and conclusions. The article reveals the constitutional features of local self-government regulation. The Constitution and the laws, concerning the local self-government and administrative and territorial division, were analyzed.
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Gunaev, E. A. "Legal Regulation of the Administrative Territorial Structure of National Autonomies in 1977–1991 (the Example of the South of Russia)." Pravo istoriya i sovremennost, no. 3(16) (2021): 007–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17277/pravo.2021.03.pp.007-016.
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The historical and legal aspects of the administrative-territorial structure of the national autonomies of the South of Russia in the period from the adoption of the Constitution of the USSR in 1977 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991 are investigated. The constitutional foundations, acts of the supreme bodies of state power of the RSFSR on the issues of the administrative-territorial structure of autonomies were analyzed. The legal specificity of the regulation of the issues of the administrative-territorial structure in relation to the autonomous republics and autonomous regions has been revealed. The examples of the regulation of the administrative-territorial structure are given on the example of the autonomies of the South of the RSFSR. In 1990-1991, political and legal processes of sovereignty had a significant influence on the reform of the administrative-territorial division. The specificity of the autonomy of the South of Russia was in the problems of territorial rehabilitation of the repressed peoples and territorial disputes.
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Vasilyev, Dmitry V. "The administrative-territorial division of Asian Russia: discussion of 1860th - 1887th." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Istoriya, no. 51 (February 1, 2018): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/19988613/51/2.
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Akmatova, Amanay Tursunbaevna. "1942: ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORIAL DIVISION KYRGYZ SSR (FORMATION OF MYRZA-AKI DISTRICT)." Theoretical & Applied Science 76, no. 08 (August 30, 2019): 223–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.15863/tas.2019.08.76.30.
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Avdeev, Denis, and Alexander Kryakhtunov. "Problems of introduction information about the limits of administrative and territorial units." E3S Web of Conferences 135 (2019): 04002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201913504002.
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This work is devoted to the issues of entering into the Unified State Register of Real Estate (hereinafter referred to as USRN) information about the location of borders between subjects of the Russian Federation, borders of municipalities, and settlements on the example of the Tyumen region. The procedure and features of the establishment, change of administrative-territorial division are considered. Analysed the legal aspects and grounds for carrying out activities for the coordinate description of administrative boundaries as objects of land management. At the same time, problems that arise both at the stage of adoption of regulatory acts establishing administrative boundaries and at the stage of preparation and coordination of land management documentation are identified and justified. According to the results of the work, a number of proposals were formulated, which will allow to provide the USRN with information on the administrative-territorial division in full.
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Ushatova, D. "CONDITIONS FOR ESTABLISHING ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL UNITS - MUNICIPALITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA." Trakia Journal of Sciences 18, Suppl.1 (2020): 507–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15547/tjs.2020.s.01.082.
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The study aims to show the deficits in the legislation regarding the conditions for establishing municipalities as administrative-territorial units. An experimental methodology for assessing current regulatory conditions for establishing a new municipality in Bulgaria has been proposed, and the results from applying it have been presented. Conclusions were made per group of municipalities. A comparison was drawn between the constitutionally established role of municipalities as the main Administrative Territorial Units, in which local self-government is exercised, and the conditions for establishing a municipality, defined by the Law on the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Republic of Bulgaria. Based on the results of the study, we have proposed to improve the understanding of the need for real forms in the social and economic sphere, instead of populist promises for a new administrative-territorial division of the country and the future positive effects determined by it.
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A., Shakhaeva. "INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION OF CHINA: ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL DIVISION AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS." Human Research of Inner Asia 1 (2017): 91–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.18101/2305-753x-2016-4-91-95.
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Dementiev, Vitaliy S. "OPTIMIZATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL DIVISION IN THE PSKOV REGION: ASSESSMENT OF CONSEQUENCES." Географический вестник = Geographical bulletin, no. 1 (2019): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2079-7877-2019-1-14-25.
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Poštolka, Václav. "Development, particularities and problems of territorial administrative division of North-Western Bohemia." Geografie 107, no. 3 (2002): 277–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2002107030277.
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The area of the North-Western Bohemia (NWB, covered by three from the 1st January 2000 in the Czech Republic 14 existing new counties) will be divided from 1st January 2003 - in compliance with ongoing public administration reforms - to 33 new and smaller "districts" (instead of more than 40 years existing 14 districts). The paper deals with internal territorial division of public administration units (counties and districts) of the NWB area in the past (see enclosed tables). In order to assess and classify both necessity and significance of recently proposed centers and their future areas the author applies to assess their "population size" (which is one of key aspects used in the reform proposals). According to the new districts "population size" - the average size is only 47 thsd inh. The author identifies group of the "smaller and disputable districts", in which he looks one of very dispute and risky results of the reform. This is emphasized by comparison with the simultaneous development and achieved results of the territorial division in the neighbouring countries Saxony/Germany and Lower Silesia/Poland. After completion of this paper the Senat of the Czech Republic approved this proposal, but moreover the number of all the new "districts" for the whole CR territory grow up from 194 up to 205 units (instead of 76 existing districts).
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Hampl, Martin. "Territorial Administrative Division of Czech Republic - Conception Problems and Variants of Solution." Geografie 95, no. 4 (1990): 248–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie1990095040248.
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The paper deals with general problems and possible variants of solution of the new territorial administrative arrangement. A special attention is paid to the application of geographical knowledge, especially the results of the social-geographical regionalization in the solution of these problems. Apart from general problems, variants on central, regional and local levels are dealt with in more detail.
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Radchenko, Andrii. "ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL DIVISION: MANAGEMENT-HISTORICAL ANALYSIS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES)." Knowledge, Education, Law, Management 2, no. 1 (2021): 297–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.51647/kelm.2021.1.2.48.
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Sossa, Rostyslav. "Political and administrative divisions of Ukrainian lands on the 16th century maps." Polish Cartographical Review 51, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2019-0004.
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Abstract The author discusses the first maps of Ukrainian lands within the borders of various countries, reflecting their political and administrative division, which were published in the 16th century. State and administration borders in Ukrainian territories were presented on the map of Southern Sarmatia (1526) by the Polish cartographer B. Wapowski and on the wall map of Europe (1554) by the Dutch cartographer G. Mercator. Maps by S. Münster and G. Gastaldi, including names of individual administrative units without reflecting state and administrative borders, were taken into account. A thorough analysis was carried out of the territorial division of Ukrainian territories on maps in the atlases by A. Ortelius (maps of Poland by W. Grodecki and A. Pograbka), on the maps of Lithuania and Taurica Chersonesus in the atlases by G. Mercator, including their subsequent adaptations. A number of inaccuracies regarding the location of state and administrative borders as well as names of administrative units have been revealed. Particular attention has been paid to the manner of presenting administrative borders. It was established that in those times no special attention was paid to the presentation of political and administrative divisions on maps. During subsequent editions of maps, no national and administrative borders were updated. Maps could be published without changes for decades. Map publishers often borrowed unverified information, which led to duplication of errors.
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Guytor, Mykola, and Vasyl Karpo. "The Bodies of Local Self-Governing of Ukraine and Republic of Moldova: Comparative Analysis." Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, no. 40 (December 15, 2019): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2019.40.83-92.
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The article explores the main stages and trends of reforming the local government of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, explores the functions and powers of local governments. In 1997, these countries ratified the European Charter of Local Self-Government, which affects the processes of reforming the local self-government system. However, decentralization in both countries is proceeding at a rather slow pace; at the same time as the new administrative entities, the previous system of administrative-territorial division of the country functions. There is a lack of political will of the countriesʼ elite to provide autonomy to local authorities.
Keywords: decentralization, local government, public administration, raion council, oblast council, administrative-territorial structure.
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Adobovska, M. V., A. O. Buyanovskiy, N. O. Popelnytska, and V. V. Yavorska. "PRESERVATION OF REGIONAL IDENTITY DURING THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN UKRAINE (IN EXAMPLE OF THE ODESSA REGION)." Odesa National University Herald. Geography and Geology 26, no. 2(39) (March 25, 2022): 78–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2303-9914.2021.2(39).246196.
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Throughout the history of Ukraine, there have been two opposite tendencies: a historical approach to regional division, which manifested itself in the formation of ideas about the cultural, ethnic, linguistic and other diversity of its historical lands, which for a long time were part of different states and a rational approach – the creation of such administrative-territorial units (provinces, voivodships, districts, regions), which would level regional differences and contribute to political centralization. Since the beginning of Ukraine’s independence in 1991, several attempts have been made to change the administrative-territorial structure in accordance with the European principles of territorial administration. The main purpose of the work is to consider some issues of environmental management and regional identity within the framework of the new districts and administrative and territorial structure created in the Odessa region as a result of the administrative reform. The theoretical basis of the study is the provisions of economic theory, environmental economics, theory of sustainable development, institutional analysis. The methodological basis of the research is a set of such general scientific and special methods used to achieve the goal of the work, in particular, the system approach, the dialectical method of cognition and comparative legal analysis, the historical approach, the method of cause-and-effect relationships, economic and statistical methods. The decentralization policy in Ukraine is an effective model of the identity formation policy at the regional level. In 2014, after the approval of the Concept of reforming local self-government in our country, transformational changes began, which resulted in the approval in 2020 of a new administrative-territorial structure of the district level and the level of territorial communities. As part of the decentralization reform in 2020, the administrative-territorial division of the region has changed. So instead of 490 village, settlement and city councils, 91 territorial communities were allocated, and instead of 26 liquidated districts – 7 new districts. When carrying out the reform, the physical-geographical zoning, natural-recreational potential and socio-cultural characteristics of the multicultural region were not fully taken into account, which ultimately leads to inadequate receipt by a person of the benefits provided for by law, incl. ecosystems. Ignoring these problems may in the near future in the foreseeable future lead to an imbalance in the systems of the region, irrational use of natural resources, including land use, and inconsistency with the existing concept of sustainable development.
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Konopski, Michał, and Rafał Wiśniewski. "Wpływ reformy administracyjnej na tożsamość terytorialną mieszkańców północno-wschodniej Polski = The impact of administrative reform on the territorial identity of inhabitants of north-eastern Poland." Przegląd Geograficzny 91, no. 4 (2019): 609–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/przg.2019.4.9.
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In the (late 16th – to late 18th – century) times of the First Republic of Poland, administrative division was mainly determined by Catholic Church structures and the borders of historical regions. In contrast, the period of the People’s Republic of Poland (in essence from World War II’s end through to 1989) saw primarily economic concepts of administrative division put in place. The onset of the era of Poland’s political transformation post-1989 thus minded scientists to attend to the need for a new territorial division underpinned by rational and objective assumptions. Regional identity- as a relevant aspect of historical conditioning - was certainly taken account of, as an important criterion vis-à-vis administrative division. R. Schattkowsky (1996), I. Geiss (1996) and T. Otremba (1997) all stressed the importance of historical conditioning to the transforming Central and Eastern European Countries. However, Poland’s latest administrative reform did not take much account of historical conditions as numerous borders of the (16) new voivodships were put in place. Lack of consistency can even be observed in the nomenclature of these newly-established administrative units, with a mixture of names deriving from historical regions and others simply referring to capital cities. In no way are the borders of the contemporary voivodships consistent with those of historical Polish regions (Miszczuk 2003; Zaborowski 2013; Nowak 2018.) The current administrative division of Poland is thus largely based upon imposed borders actually dividing previously-coherent regions. When set against those of the former regions, the borders of the new administrative units are seen to be characterised by a significant lack of harmony – all the more so given that the relict borders are still found to be apparent in public awareness, thanks to historical conditioning. In the (late 16th – to late 18th – century) times of the First Republic of Poland, administrative division was mainly determined by Catholic Church structures and the borders of historical regions. In contrast, the period of the People’s Republic of Poland (in essence from World War II’s end through to 1989) saw primarily economic concepts of administrative division put in place. The onset of the era of Poland’s political transformation post-1989 thus minded scientists to attend to the need for a new territorial division underpinned by rational and objective assumptions. Regional identity- as a relevant aspect of historical conditioning - was certainly taken account of, as an important criterion vis-à-vis administrative division. R. Schattkowsky (1996), I. Geiss (1996) and T. Otremba (1997) all stressed the importance of historical conditioning to the transforming Central and Eastern European Countries. However, Poland’s latest administrative reform did not take much account of historical conditions as numerous borders of the (16) new voivodships were put in place. Lack of consistency can even be observed in the nomenclature of these newly-established administrative units, with a mixture of names deriving from historical regions and others simply referring to capital cities. In no way are the borders of the contemporary voivodships consistent with those of historical Polish regions (Miszczuk 2003; Zaborowski 2013; Nowak 2018.) The current administrative division of Poland is thus largely based upon imposed borders actually dividing previously-coherent regions. When set against those of the former regions, the borders of the new administrative units are seen to be characterised by a significant lack of harmony – all the more so given that the relict borders are still found to be apparent in public awareness, thanks to historical conditioning.
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Aldoshin, N. V., and N. A. Lylin. "Location determination of machinery recycling enterprise." Traktory i sel hozmashiny 81, no. 3 (March 15, 2014): 51–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/0321-4443-65656.
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Method for location determination of old and unfit machinery recycling enterprise in compliance with administrative-territorial division of constituent entities of the Russian Federation is presented. Point of locating within the territory of Yegoryevsk district of Moscow region is determined.
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Rykov, Anatoly N. "EVOLUTION OF THE INSTITUTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL DIVISION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION." State power and local self-government 8 (August 15, 2018): 36–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18572/1813-1247-2018-8-36-41.
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Sherbakov, Stanislav S. "Improving the administrative-territorial division of the Russian Federation: economic and political approach." Russian Journal of Entrepreneurship 16, no. 8 (May 6, 2015): 1091. http://dx.doi.org/10.18334/rp.16.8.190.
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Bakarić, Ivana Rašić. "A Proposal for A New Administrative-Territorial Division of the Republic of Croatia." Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 25, no. 2 (January 2012): 397–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1331677x.2012.11517514.
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Fedorova, E. N. "Development of Settlement Network of Yakutia in the XVIIth Century." Journal of Geography and Geology 6, no. 2 (May 15, 2013): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jgg.v6n2p155.
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At all times Yakutia was particularly concerned with the issues of territorial structure and management due to the enormity of its territory, ample natural resources and its geographical and geopolitical location. Taking into account the changes in the territorial organization of the region in the XVIIth century allows us to trace the growth dynamics of its settlement network, the relationships between individual settlements and their totality, as well as to identify the differences between the existing settlement network and the problems related to the future development of the region. The article discusses the changes in the territorial and organizational structure of the region and its internal parts within the context of general changes in the administrative division of the Russian state as a whole, and Siberia, in particular. Literary publications, historical documents containing the information about the basic changes in boundaries and structure, cartographic and descriptive materials served as the sources for studying this issue. The use of the above mentioned sources allows us to determine that the territorial and organizational structure of the region at an early stage (before the service class people came there) was a location of tribal groupings and corresponded to places of locations of clans and tribes. Only with the introduction of the yasak tax the territory of inhabitance was divided into volosts (small rural districts). At first, that division was only a fixation of social structure of the Yakuts pursuant to the words of Yakut kniaztsy (elders of Siberian clans). First groups of service class people had neither time nor favorable conditions for exercising any administrative division. Initially, they were dealing with kniaztsy who occupied certain regions called volosts or uluses. Those were the first administrative units of territory management of the region in the XVIIth century.
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Kuzub, Halyna. "National minorities political rights in the context of decentralization of power in the Eastern European countries." Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світу, no. 33-34 (August 25, 2017): 250–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/mhpi2016.33-34.250-256.
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The question of political minorities rights is always crucial for European countries because of mutual history and border changes. Almost each of these countries are characterized by small groups of ethnic minorities who are living in boarding areas. Some representatives of these ethnic groups have separatistic points of view during the years. In some European countries situation becomes even more complicated because of assimilation policy which was provided by the former Soviet Union.
Decentralization is transferring of authorities to the local levels what is other serious accelerator of the questions of political minorities rights. The question of our research work is if the impact of decentralization process matches political minorities rights in Eastern Europe? In the present study we analyze the results of administrative and territorial reforms in Poland, the Czech Republic , Slovakia and we also took into consideration the impact of ethnic factor within new administrative and territorial division.
In conclusions author emphasizes that in Eastern Europe new division process mostly happened without taking into account historical areas where small groups of political minorities lived. Author also draws our attention to the possible separatism, which can be the reason of articulation of national minorities will, who live near the borders to other countries as to unite in some areas.
Keywords: Decentralization of authority, administrative-territorial reform, post-socialist transformation, minorities, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
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Arhipova, Irina, Gundars Berzins, Aldis Erglis, Evija Ansonska, and Juris Binde. "Socio-Economic Situation in Latvia's Municipalities in the Context of Administrative-Territorial Division and Unexpected Impact of COVID-19." Journal of Global Information Management 30, no. 10 (January 2022): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.298002.
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In this research, the authors analysed how the behaviour of people changed in various phases of the COVID-19 pandemic and how these changes affected the economic activity in municipalities, taking into consideration significant changes in people’s habits and employment conditions. The pandemic coincided with the administrative-territorial reform in Latvia, providing a unique opportunity to test and ascertain in a single research both the above-mentioned changes in the economic activity of inhabitants and the viability of the new administrative-territorial division vis-a-vis the new reality. The developed regional planning methodology based on the mobile phone activity data and socio-economic indicators (set of indicators provided by regional development state institutions) is used to categorize the 43 newly formed municipalities into similar groups. It is concluded that the aggregated indicators have a significant impact on the division of municipalities: Inhabitants, Dynamics indicator, Economic development level, Mobile phone activity on workdays, holidays and weekends.
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Hołubko, Wiktor. "DECENTRALIZATION AND THE PROBLEM OF THE FEDERALIZATION OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE THREAT AND TERRITORIAL INTERALITY." Roczniki Administracji i Prawa 2, no. XX (June 30, 2020): 105–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1691.
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The administrative-territorial reform that began in Ukraine aims at modernizing state governance and introducing European standards. First of all, it is about democratization of public administration on the basis of broad territorial self-government and decentralizationof power, as well as introduction of a new territorial-administrative division. Public opinion often discusses the best practices for achieving these goals, most often addressing decentralization and federalization, mistakenly identifying them as equal. As a consequence, axifugal movements, inspired by internal and external political factors, emerge in Ukraine under the slogan of democratization under the guise of federalization thus creating internal conflicts as well as a threat to its territorial integrity. The prospect of federalization of Ukraine represents a jeopardy to its unity. With economic, cultural, and mental regional differences, the transition from unitarity to federalization will bring further deepening of contrasts. Therefore, the decentralization of public power in the state may be the optimal solution to the problem and an alternative to federalization.
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Wang, Pengrui, Chen Zeng, Yan Song, Long Guo, Wenping Liu, and Wenting Zhang. "The Spatial Effect of Administrative Division on Land-Use Intensity." Land 10, no. 5 (May 20, 2021): 543. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10050543.
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Land-use intensity (LUI) is one of the most direct manifestations of regional land use efficiency. The study of cross-administrative LUI in urban agglomerations is of great importance for the sustainable development of land, new urbanization, and territorial spatial planning. In this study, the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China was used as the case study area to explore the spatial spillover effect through the administrative division, underlying driving mechanism, and spatial interactions or constraints of LUI. First, LUI was measured using the index of the proportion of construction land to the total area of the administrative region. Second, the adjacency relationship of the county-level administrative units was identified on the basis of the queen-type adjacency criterion under the county-level administrative division system. Thereafter, spatial weight matrix for spatial modeling was constructed. Last, a spatial model using the “Spatial adjacency matrix” was devised to examine the influencing factors and the potential spatial interactions or constraints of administrative units. Results revealed that the level of LUI of different county-level administrative units were quite different, and the gap of LUI among county-level administrative units widened from 2010 to 2017. The fixed asset investment per land (FAIL), gross domestic product per capital (PGDP), and proportion of tertiary sector (PTS) are the driving factors of LUI. County-level administrative units not only had a significant and increasing spatial interaction effect based on the relationship of cooperation, but also had an influence of restraint mutually which was caused by the competition. The direct spatial spillover effect was remarkable. In the future, the effect of interaction among administrative units under the administrative division should be considered to promote the reasonable use and optimal layout of regional urban land to realize the optimal allocation of land resources.
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Udovychenko, Volodymyr, Anatoliy Melnychuk, Oleksiy Gnatiuk, and Pavlo Ostapenko. "Decentralization Reform in Ukraine: Assessment of the Chosen Transformation Model." European Spatial Research and Policy 24, no. 1 (October 6, 2017): 23–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/esrp-2017-0002.
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Ukraine has to reform the spatial organization of power, which involves alteration of the administrative-territorial division in very difficult socio-economic and political conditions. Despite a great interest in the Ukrainian decentralization reform in scientific publications and media, the influence of chosen voluntary consolidation mode on the newly formed territorial communities, including their spatial configuration, economic potential and institutional capability, remains uncovered. Trying to shed some light on the issue, the authors made an attempt to reveal advantages and disadvantages of the selected model of reform on the example of the Perspective Plan of Territorial Communities Formation in Kyiv Region.
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Aseev, Alexander. "ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORIAL AND NATIONAL DIVISION IN THE FAR EAST: THE GENESIS OF MODERN CONTRADICTIONS." Journal of Political Theory, Political Philosophy and Sociology of Politics Politeia 46, no. 3 (2007): 115–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.30570/2078-5089-2007-46-3-115-124.
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BURKINSKY, B. V., V. F. GORIACHYK, and G. M. MURZANOVSKIY. "THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL REFORM IN UKRAINE:THE SYSTEM PRESENTATION." Economic innovations 20, no. 3(68) (September 20, 2018): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2018.20.3(68).8-19.
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Topicality. It is caused by excessive centralization of powers and financial and material resources by the executive authorities, the inability of the territorial communities of the basic level to fulfill their powers, the deterioration of the quality and availability of public services owing to a lack of financial support and a deterioration of the infrastructure base of local self-government, and a decrease in the level of professionalism of officials. Aim and tasks. The research was dedicated to identifying the essence of the administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine and to analyse its implementation, to identify the main problems, to formulate a systematic view on the administrative-territorial reform, to submit proposals to improve the process of reforming of local self-government and territorial organisation of power in Ukraine. Research results. It was proved that the essence of the administrative and territorial reform consists in solving four tasks: improving the territorial division by improving of the system of administrative and territorial units and their consolidation at the basic and district levels; redistribution of powers between executive authorities and local self-government bodies and powers between local government bodies of different levels in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity; provision of territorial communities and their management bodies for the financial, material and human resources that are necessary for the exercise of their powers; the consolidation by the state authorities of the functions of monitoring the observance of the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine and the norms of legislation by local self-government bodies. The administrative-territorial reform cannot be implemented without the parallel implementation of the reform of local self-government and administrative reform. The consolidation of administrative and territorial units has become one of the main directions of numerous reforms of public authority in European countries. It is not possible to speak of a single model of the administrative and territorial system in Europe. Administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine is inherently complex and involves a thorough and fundamental change in the system of state and local government, creating effective and self-sufficient management entities at all levels. Without the scale of reform, the government identified unrealistic terms of its implementation, narrowing the understanding of reform to a simple transfer of powers and financial resources to the basic level of local self-government without economic calculations about the possibility of exercising powers. A number of measures were proposed to improve the process of reforming local self-government and the territorial organisation of power in Ukraine in terms of updating the Concept of reforming local self-government and territorial organisation of power in Ukraine, forming a conceptual vision of the second level of administrative-territorial structure (level of districts), developing a new Methodology for the formation of capable territorial communities, reduction of dependence of local self-government on transfers from the state budget, approval of standards (norms) of providing public services both in terms of their quality, and in terms of their value. Conclusions.The practical recommendations in the article provide the basis for the development of normative acts and organisational measures aimed at improving the process of reforming local self-government and territorial organisation of authorities in Ukraine.
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Kieżun, Witold. "Four Riders of the Apocalypse of the Polish Bureaucracy." Foundations of Management 10, no. 1 (March 24, 2018): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fman-2018-0001.
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Abstract This article was originally published in Polish as: Witold Kieżun, Czterej jeźdźcy apokalipsy polskiej biurokracji, Kultura, No. 3/630, Paris 2000. The Literary Institute (publisher of the “Kultura” monthly) expressed its interest in and consent to the publication of an English-language version of this article. Professor Witold Kieżun also gave his consent to the translation of his text and its posting in the pages of the journal Foundations of Management. The text was written in 1999 and introduced subsequent to January 1 of that year, regarding the reform of the administrative division of Poland, which involved, among other things, three-stage structure of territorial division and the introduction of counties as administrative units (editorial note).
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Sukhova, Olga A., and Olga A. Filenkova. "FORMATION OF NATIONAL AUTONOMIES IN THE RSFSR IN EARLY 1920s: PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS (on the example of creating the Mordovian Autonomous Region)." Historical Search 1, no. 4 (December 25, 2020): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-4-91-96.
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At the initial stage of the reforms in the administrative-territorial division in the conditions of the Civil War, the process of federalization hardly met any resistance from the center. By the beginning of 1921 the RSFSR included as its parts the Tatar, Kirghiz, Bashkir, Dagestan, Gorsk Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republics, autonomous regions of the Kalmyk, Mari and Chuvash peoples and Labour communes of the Germans in the Volga region and the Karelians. By 1922 21 associations were already established. It was not possible to form the Mordovian autonomous administrative-territorial unit. Strengthening greater concentration of power, lack of territory with compact residence of the Mordovian population, unformed national elite, corporate interests of provincial authorities representatives served as constraining factors in the struggle for autonomy.
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MAGOMEDKHANOV, MAGOMEDKHAN M., ROBERT CHENCINER, and SAIDA M. GARUNOVA. "ETHNO-RELIGIOUS AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE PRE-SOVIET GOVERNMENT OF THE DAGESTAN REGION." Study of Religion, no. 1 (2019): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2072-8662.2019.1.29-37.
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The article studies ethno-religious / confessional and legal aspects in the pre-Soviet practice of government of the Dagestan region. The Russian Empire was one of the most varied in the world with regard to the ethnic and religious relations. By the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire covered an area of almost 22.5 million square km., and its 125.7 million population included, in addition to Russians (about 42.0%), two hundred peoples, followers of various religions and beliefs, including Islam (11.1%), Judaism (4, 2%) and Buddhism (0.5%). With the incorporation of Dagestan into Russia, in 1868 the feudal form of government or the Khanate(s) was abolished. The institutions of civil self- government of rural societies were adapted to the general imperial goals of government and subordinated to the tsarist administration. In general, administrative and territorial delimitation at grassroots level corresponded to the traditional divisions of rural societies. The former administrative division into “naibstva” (administrative units, from Arabic نَائِب (nāʾib) assistant, deputy head) was retained...
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Tikunov, Vladimir, and Aleksandr Igonin. "The Russian-Ukrainian border — emergence and sustainability." Population and Economics 2, no. 4 (December 28, 2018): 136–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/popecon.2.e36062.
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The article analyses the issues of emergence and sustainability of the Russian-Ukrainian border. Methods of analysis of sustainability of administrative and political borders by means of electronic cartographic bases of administrative-territorial division for different years are implemented. A section of border sustainability within the framework of the Geographical Information System (GIS) “Administrative-territorial division of the Russian-Ukrainian borderlands” and a series of maps demonstrating dynamics, sustainability and segmentation of the state border between Russia and Ukraine are developed. A general methodological basis for analysis of sustainability and emergence of borders with the use of geoinformation technologies is elaborated. A historical and geographical analysis of the formation of the Russian-Ukrainian state border is performed.The paper presents classification of the Russian-Ukrainian border into segments, a detailed description of the degree of sustainability and history of emergence of the state border. As a result of estimating classification, various values of the index are obtained, confirming the fact of differentiation of the state border by sustainability and emergence. Four groups of border sections according to the degree of sustainability are allocated, which enables structuring the historical and geographical description of the border and drawing conclusions on the origin, present and future of transboundary processes.
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Garin, E. E. "ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE THE ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL PROBLEMS OF SIBERIA BY THE BOLSHEVIKS IN 1920–1930 Abstract." Northern Archives and Expeditions 6, no. 1 (March 30, 2022): 201–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.31806/2542-1158-2022-6-1-201-207.
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The purpose of this study is to study the organization and the main stages of the activities of the central and regional bodies of Soviet power to solve the problem of the administrative-territorial structure of Siberia in the 1920– 1930. Objectives of the study: 1. To reveal the relationship of Sibrevkom with the central and local bodies of Soviet power. 2. To investigate the project of Sibrevkom on the administrative-territorial division of Siberia. 3. To analyze the main stages of the transformation of the administrative-territorial structure of Siberia in 1920–1930. The object of the study is the administrative-territorial bodies of Soviet power on the territory of Siberia in 1020–1930. The subject of the research is the activities of the party and Soviet bodies to solve the problem of the administrative-territorial structure of Siberia in the first post-revolutionary decades of Soviet power. The article notes that the beginning of solving the problem of the administrative-territorial structure of Siberia was laid by the creation, by decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of August 27, 1919, of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee (Sibrevkom) as the authorized body of Soviet power to maintain revolutionary order in Siberia and lead all administrative-territorial bodies local authorities. The activities of the central bodies of the party and Soviet authorities in the search for optimal forms of government in Siberia are revealed in the main stages, determined by economic and political factors. At the first stage in 1923–1924. volosts were transformed into districts, which made it possible to bring authorities closer to the population and take into account their general economic needs. At the second stage (1924–1925) districts were created as administrative units, which included several districts each. The stage ended with the formation of the Siberian Territory, the highest administrative body of which was the Siberian Regional Executive Committee. In order to more effectively manage the territories of Siberia, at the third stage, which ended in 1930, Sibkrai was divided into the West Siberian and East Siberian territories. Taking into account the interests of Soviet, economic and public organizations, at the fourth stage in 1934, territories and regions were created, including the Krasnoyarsk Territory on December 7, 1934. Thus, the changes in the administrative-territorial structure of Siberia were based on socio-economic and national factors. The process of searching for optimal forms of governance in Siberia was completed with the formation of regions and territories, and thus an attempt was made to find the balance of power between the regions and the center necessary to solve the problems of a particular time.
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Baranovskyi, M. "SUBREGIONAL LEVEL OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL REFORM IN UKRAINE: DEBATABLE ASPECTS." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geography, no. 76-77 (2020): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2020.76-77.5.
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Reforming the administrative and territorial structure of Ukraine within the process of decentralization has a number of unresolved issues. The second stage of the reform related to the formation of administrative and territorial units of the subregional level has now begun. The plan of 136 new districts approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine provoked a lively discussion both in the regions and in the expert community. The study analyses the approaches of scholars to the creation of administrative units of the subregional level in Ukraine in order to switch to a three-level model of territorial division. The article provides the arguments for and against the creation of new administrative and territorial units of the subregional level in Ukraine. The existence de facto in Ukraine of a number of inter-district territorial systems in various spheres – education, medicine, tax service – has been proved. Based on the analysis of quantitative criteria, written in the methodology for the creation of new districts, it was defined that they met the NUTS-3 level of the territorial division standard of the European Union countries. A comparative analysis of schemes for dividing the country into districts, which were developed by different Governments of Ukraine, and the network of districts approved by the Verkhovna Rada in 2020 was carried out. The article presents reasons for the increase in the number of new districts from 102 to 129 and then to 136 units, primarily due to the extension of their network in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas and Crimea, as well as under pressure from regional representatives. The complexity of the issue of forming a network of new districts and their centres are described on the example of Chernihiv region. It is determined that the average population of the project district in Ukraine is 303 thousand people, the population of the centre of administrative units of the subregional level, 130 thousand people. The significant disparities (from 58 to 362 times) in the population of new districts and their centres were defined. Based on the calculations, it was found that 26,5 % of new districts have less population than that determined by the methodology of forming administrative units of the subregional level (150 thousand people). The situation with the population of district centres is similar. Almost 50 % of subregional centres approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine account for less than 50 thousand people, which may be an obstacle to form high-quality human resources of the executive bodies. It is defined that the competition between cities for the status of the new district centre is due to the desire of local elites to retain control over certain areas. The ambiguous attitude to the issue of creating administrative units of the subregional level on ethnic grounds (Bolhrad and Berehovo districts) among experts and regional elites is pointed out. The list of personnel, financial, property issues that need to be resolved in order to build an effective executive branch in Ukraine at the subregional level has been determined.
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Manca, Anna Gianna. "Die Verwaltungsgliederung Preußens zwischen historisch-ständischen, administrativ-staatlichen und liberal-politischen Interessen (1815–1867)." Administory 2, no. 1 (August 8, 2018): 185–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/adhi-2018-0021.
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Abstract The paper deals with the question of the administrative districts in an overall Prussian perspective and emphasizes, above all, the central political role played by the provincial districts and their main authorities within the spaces of the state and of administrative activity. On this basis, it will be possible to adequately appreciate the revolutionary but unsuccessful attempt to abolish them in 1848 by the liberaldemocratic wing of the Constitutional Commission of the Prussian National Assembly, as has not yet been accomplished within the existing historiography. First, the origins of the spatial-territorial division of Prussia existing around the middle of the 19th century are discussed. Within this framework special attention has been paid to the introduction of a provincial division, which led to that organization of internal administration into four instances under the minister (provinces, governmental districts, districts, municipalities) which was a peculiarity of the Prussian political and administrative spatial division compared with the other states of the German Confederation. Questions such as those of the basic division of the state’s space are so radical that they are usually raised with some prospect of success only at the foundation of states or during revolutions. Immediately afterwards, they tend to be included in the list of ›depoliticized technicalities‹, although they retain their fundamental importance for ensuring the political and administrative continuity of the state.
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Hulai, Vasyl. "Update of Internal Political Threats to the National Security of Ukraine at the Local Level in the Process of Administrative and Territorial Reform." Confrontation and Cooperation: 1000 Years of Polish-German-Russian Relations 6, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/conc-2020-0006.
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Abstract The article presents theoretical and practical aspects of political and legal instruments aimed at minimizing the risk of intra-Ukrainian political character. The priority in the implementation of administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine should be the implementation of the interests of local communities, and not the administrative, political and economic priorities of local elites. It should be emphasized that the territorial organization of Ukraine as a mandatory, indispensable element of the general organization of the state is considered mainly as part of the formed social structure and as a division of the country’s territory into certain parts. It is necessary to take into account the historical and legal nature of the tasks and functions of the state, as well as the organization of the system of state authorities and local self-governments.
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Kaup, Katherine Palmer. "Regionalism versus Ethnicnationalism in the People's Republic of China." China Quarterly 172 (December 2002): 863–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009443902000530.
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Although a number of scholars have examined differences among members of a single nationality in different localities within the People's Republic of China, none emphasizes the impact which formal territorial administrative divisions have on ethnic identity and consequently on state–ethnic interaction. China's largest minority nationality, the Zhuang, is divided by the Guangxi–Yunnan provincial boundary. The Zhuang on either side of the boundary have been governed by different provincial institutions. This territorial division has encouraged both a pronounced difference in ethnic identity and in official discourse on the Zhuang, and has encouraged regionalist sentiment over pan-Zhuang ethnicnationalism. This essay explores the origin and consequence of two major differences between Zhuang self-expression on either side of the provincial boundary and concludes that the central government has played regional and ethnic politics in Zhuang areas off against one another in a manner that limits both, while purportedly promoting each.