Review article
Decentralisation and Enhancing the Local Government Capacity in Serbia
Snežana Đorđević
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
This paper provides a review of the process of decentralisation in Serbia from 2000 to 2011, bearing in mind that this process should at the same time be a process of enhancing the local government capacity. The paper traces the transformation of each of the essential factors of the autonomy of local government and its managerial potentials: its constitutional and legal status, elections and the model of the organisation of government, competences, funding, provision of services, citizen participation, and the relationship between the state and local self-government. This complex process is time-consuming, requires upgrading knowledge and skills at all levels of government (local government in particular), a commitment of the political elite to democratic values, and is closely tied to increasing the level of democratic political culture.
Keywords
democratisation; modernisation; competences; provision of services; citizen participation; openness of government
Hrčak ID:
77764
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2012.
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