.../reprints-permissions . 2020 The Regents of the University of California competitive grants network leadership clientelism Albania Beginning in the early 1990s, decentralization policies became a priority across post-socialist countries during their transition from a strictly centralized...

... the institutional framework appropriate to democracy and the rule of law — already substantially in place — but also an appreciation of politics and civil society as spheres of continuing diversity, competition and conflict. The deficit of trust can be addressed by a leadership exemplary in its service...