Review article
FORMS OF COOPERATION OF PRIVATE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND UNITS OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
Gojko Bežovan
orcid.org/0000-0002-7543-6875
; Faculty of Law, Universtiy of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The development of private non-profit sector (civil society, non-governmental organizations, associations, foundations) has more and more frequently been set as a frame for the solution of numerous problems in modern countries. The fact is that civil - non-governmental initiatives facilitate new forms of the development of the community and indicate the return to forms of local democracy. They promote the principle of subsidiarity as just autonomy.
In the text, attention is drawn to researches which have shown that non-profit organizations are important factors of efficiency of local self-government units. Cooperation of civil organizations and units of local self-government is presented from the aspect of the development of social capital, importance of social enterprise, promotion of the model of combined social policy, social innovation, development of social infrastructure and participation of citizens.
Finally, the circumstances in Croatia have been analysed and recommendations given in order that the non-profit sector could constitute a significant base which contributes to the efficiency of the units of local self-government.
Keywords
non-profit (non-governmental) sector; units of local self-government; associations; foundations; social capital; social enterprise; social infrastructure; combined social policy
Hrčak ID:
197730
URI
Publication date:
8.9.2000.
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