1. The new system of territorial government in the Czech Republic has been described and analyzed by a number of social scientists: H. Baldersheim et al. (1996); ‘The New Institutions of Local Government in East-Central Europe: A Comparison’, in: H. Baldersheim et al. (eds) Local Democracy and the Processes of Transformation in East-Central Europe, Boulder-San Francisco-Oxford: Westview Press, pp. 23–41;
2. K. Davey (1995) ‘The Czech and the Slovak Republics’, in A. Coulson (ed.) Local government in Eastern Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 41–56;
3. P. Dostal, M. Illner et al. (eds) (1992), Changing Territorial Administration in Czechoslovakia: International Viewpoint Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam; P. Dostal and M. Hampl (1993) ‘Territorial organization of society: Czechoslovak developments’, in R. J. Bennett (ed) Local Government in the New Europe, London and New York: Belhaven Press;
4. D. Hendrych (1993) ‘Transforming Czechoslovakian public administration; traditions and challenges’, in J. J. Hesse (ed) op. cit., pp. 41–54;
5. J. J. Hesse (1993) ‘From transformation to modernization: administrative change in Central and Eastern Europe’, in J. J. Hesse (ed) Administrative transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 219–258;