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Corruption is most commonly viewed as an economic issue & associated with countries that remain poor despite natural resources or highly educated labor forces. It has been defined as using a privileged position for economic gain. It is argued that this common view is too narrow. The history of the idea of corruption shows that it is only in the last 50 years that corruption has been associated so much with economics. This focus has obscured or even exacerbated other types of corruption in the political process. Minimizing economic corruption or reducing government may not be the best solution to the broader problem. M. Pflum

Examines reform to decentralized governments in GB & in Eastern/Central Europe -- different types of economic & political systems at different levels of development -- with the observation that the political model has greater power than the managerial reform model to capture pertinent issues regarding central & local government relations. In GB, New Public Management (NPM) has impacted decentralized levels of local & regional government, & has sometimes been seen as a weapon against local government power, function, & jurisdiction, in direction opposition to the decentralizing principle of NPM theory. In Eastern Europe, managerial reform is subordinated to the current issues of constitutional reform, postcommunist development of regional & local government authority, & the development of structures of political leadership. Communist officials who have retained power exert bureaucratic & political resistance to managerial reform. Since NPM reforms must be adapted to the political context of its operation, external aid donors would accomplish more by supporting probity & accountability before promoting market-oriented management reform. 43 References. L. A. Hoffman

This essay is based on in the findings from several research projects in which regional governments from all over Europe were directly involved. Keeping this background and some interpretation models from other research fields in mind, we will try to define some guidelines on how to manage methods and institutional learning processes involving regional governments.