Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.25234/pv/13901
DELEGATED SCOPE OF COMPETENCE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCES
Iva Lopižić
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, 10000 Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Abstract
After the abolition of the county administrative offices in January 2020, the tasks performed by the county administrative offices as first-instance state administration bodies were delegated to the counties, as the second level self-government units in Croatia. By this organizational change, the model of deconcentrated performance of state administration tasks was replaced by the model of administrative decentralization. In this context, the paper presents the features of the delegated scope of competence as an organizational performance model of state administration tasks in territorial units and administrative decentralization with a delegated scope of competence as an institutional result. The review of the scholarly literature on the delegated scope of competence and the effects of administrative decentralization is supported by a comparative review of the delegated scope of competence in the Czech and German local self-government. Based on theoretical considerations and comparative practices, the paper discusses the possible effects of the application of the delegated scope of competence in Croatian counties on their institutional development and performance of the delegated tasks.
Keywords
delegated scope of competence; administrative decentralization; effects of administrative decentralization; Czech and German local government; county administrative offices' abolition; Croatian counties
Hrčak ID:
269530
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2021.
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