Professional paper
Territorial Committee: Representing Citizens or Local Political Elites?
Vojko Rešetar
; the City of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Beginning with the difference between normative and real situation in local selfgovernment below municipal level in Croatia, the author analyses the elements of local community as a real substrate of both self-government below municipal level and local self-government. He has found thirteen necessary characteristics of territorial committees as real social communities. Along with normative regulation of self-government below municipal level, he has performed a more detailed
analysis of different practical elements, such as organisation, functioning, and financing of self-government below municipal level in Croatia. It is concluded that the position and practice of this type of self-government is not optimal regarding democratic standards, public management, and the provision of public services to citizens at the level of territorial self-government closest to them.
Keywords
self-government below municipal level – Croatia; local democracy; local community; territorial committee; politico-administrative system
Hrčak ID:
136013
URI
Publication date:
2.9.2009.
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