Editorial (/. Musil) -- New Regionalism and New Member States of the European Union (E. Cihelková) -- Jurisdictional Competition via Spending Composition: The Case of the Czech Republic (L. Šťastná, M. Gregor) -- Politics and Its Impact on the Reform Processes: -- The Case of Public Administration Reform in Slovakia -- (1989-2006) (D. Klimovský) -- The Most Shocking Respects of the European Administrative Space: Some Hungarian Experiences (L. Vass) -- Inner Peripheries of the Czech Republic as a Form of Social Exclusion (/. Musil, J. Mutter) -- How to Escape the Peripheral Trap? The Case of Mexico and the U.S. (K. Kozák) -- Czech Economic Thought 1945-1952: A Wasted Chance in Comparison with Today’s Controversy (K. Půlpán) -- The Political Activities of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia, 1949-1960 (F. Raška)