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Decentralisation and good urban governance

Ivan Koprić ; Professor and head of the Chair of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, and president of the Institute of Public Administration, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The issue of adequate decentralisation within the City of Zagreb is analysed in the broader frame. Decentralisation is one of the main reform processes of the current governance system in European countries. However, decentralisation is not the only process that influences the standards of good urban governance. Good governance doctrine, supported and implemented in the European Union, many other international organisations, and increasing number of countries world-wide, should be taken into consideration as well. The role of territorial selfgovernment below municipal level in implementation of good urban governance standards in Croatia, especially within large cities and the City of Zagreb, is discussed. It should be emphasised that establishing more than two hundred of
territorial committees as separate and full legal entities can cause managerial fragmentation in the City of Zagreb and hinder or even impede integral urban management and sound solving of numerous urban and managerial problems.

Keywords

territorial self-government below municipal level; the City of Zagreb; urban management; decentralisation; good governance; citizens’participation in governance

Hrčak ID:

135519

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/135519

Publication date:

2.3.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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