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Normative Decentralisation in Croatia and Its Boundaries
Tereza ROGIĆ LUGARIĆ
Sažetak
In the text the author analyses the degree of decentralisation
realised in Croatia after the year 2001. The mentioned year
has been taken as a starting point due to the implementation
of a number of legal changes initiated with the aim to
achieve greater decentralisation. In the initial phase this
undertaking was technically limited to the fields of education,
health, social welfare and fire-fighting. In the analysis the
author proceeds from the understanding of the concept of
decentralisation taking into account first and foremost its
functional implications. Based on the latter the most
important are political, administrative and financial
decentralisation. However, the author warns that
decentralisation cannot be completely understood or
analysed if not taking into consideration the decentralisation
of the ability of the local government to autonomously shape
local development. The author thus continues to analyse the
first effects of the programme of new decentralisation after
the year 2001. Data indicate that only 53 units of local
government have taken over the financing of the
decentralised activities of education, health and social
welfare, while the obligation to fund fire-fighting has been
taken over by 86 units (out of 500 and more). In short,
decentralisation remains "too short". In investigating the
reasons of the aforementioned fact, the author indicates that
evident in most local government units is a long-term
developmental inability which prevents them from acting as
autonomous subjects of development. Especially observable
is the lack of strategic awareness, underdevelopment of local
institutions and normative foundation which does not ensue
from the strategy of development. Therefore, concludes the
author, decentralisation also has to include the formation of
a parallel model of social development known under the
term 'endogenous' development or development 'from
below', within which the local government unit can realise its
developmental autonomy allowing normative
decentralisation to be transformed into real developmental
possibilities and – advantages.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
18101
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2005.
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