Original scientific paper
The Development and Basic Characteristics of Primary Local Councils in Socialist Yugoslavia
Zdravko Tomac
Abstract
The author in the first part of the article established the essential characteristics of various types of primary, local units (of government) and councils.
1. The conception, organizational structure and function of the people's Liberation Councils during the period of NOB (the People's Liberation Struggle) from 1941-1945, and their role in the creation of the new socialist government.
2. The role of the People's Local Councils during the period from 1946-1952.
3. The functions of People's County Councils in the period from 1952-1955 in which the basic territorial unit of government ceases to function in harmony with the local council, and in which the problem of organizing the primary, local councils recurs.
4. Local Councils in rural areas and Residential Councils in urban areas functioning as the new type of primary, local council, as the organ of self-government (without its own organs of government) and as the forerunner of the modern concept of the local council.
5. The development of local councils in the period from 1963-1973 as universal, primary councils of local self-government in both urban and rural areas.
In the second part of this article the author works out in detail the essential characteristics of the concept of the local council and outlines all essential changes in the development of local councils from 1963-1973.
The author, basing his analysis on practice, lists the basic criteria for determining the size of a local council for different types (rural, urban and suburban).
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Hrčak ID:
219045
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Publication date:
9.11.1977.
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