Preliminary communication
SOME THESES FOR DISCUSSING THE REFORM OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Ivan Koprić
; Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The wider context o f the reform of local self-government in Croatia make the growing globalization and by it caused need of constructing “human”micro-institutions, managerial approach to the reform of public administration in numerous countries, specific Croatian tradition of local self-government and an endeavor of unification of local self-government within the framework of Council of Europe, The author is of the opinion that the reform has to be profound in Order to develop a capacity for
resolution of public problems and improvement o f democratic institutions. He proposes the solutions, which relate to the questions of a territorial division (kinds and scope o f local units, their tiers and connecting), definition of a scope of local activities, local finances, organisation of local organs and the central - local relations). In conclusion he warns that the reform attempts must take care about the prevailing inertia o f the existing System of local self-government as well as to strengthen local units. He holds that the reform o f local self-government is not possible with-out a partial reform of the present system of state administration and caveats on the technical complexity of all these reform endeavors and the need for an exceptionally firm political support.
Keywords
local self- government - Croatia; reform
Hrčak ID:
197506
URI
Publication date:
8.12.1999.
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