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Management of Decentralisation Process as a New Approach to Local Self-Government Development
Ivan Koprić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9086-6937
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagreb
Sažetak
The management of decentralisation process as a new approach present an increasing number of countries has been analysed. It is rooted in the contemporary administrative context characterised by the subsidiarity principle, conflicting values of modern public administration, changing administrative doctrines, administrative reforms, and the Europeanization process. The new approach is
characterised by professionalism and management of the process. A balance between top-down and bottom-up approach has been achieved. The new approach is systemic, integral, dynamic, gradual, and economic. It incorporates identification of decentralisation grounds, ensuring support, and decentralisation implementation. Establishing vision and strategy of the institutional development of the state, identifying cultural, social and traditional frames of decentralisation, making choices with regard to values which should
be realised, determining goals and developing decentralisation program, legal frame checking, analysing conditions and prerequisites of successful decentralisation, as well as decentralisation implementation risks, are the elements necessary to identify decentralisation grounds. Firm political will, the support of administrative bodies and personnel, local and regional units and their associations joined by citizens and media are all needed. It is necessary to establish a professional and strong expert body for the
management of decentralisation process and to ensure expert community participation. Strong civil society is one of preconditions for success, also. Implementation requires: a detailed decentralisation plan, pilot projects, quality legal regulation, monitoring, evaluation and adaptation of decentralisation process to changing circum stances. Wide decentralisation should encompass the following issues: competences and affairs, financial autonomy and capacity, administrative capacity, political legitimacy and political role of local self-government, central-local relations, and – possibly – modifications in territorial organisation of local self-government.
Decentralisation in Croatia got substantial momentum by the Constitutional Amendments of 2000. Certain results have been achieved, but it is still not enough. Croatian approach is not very similar to the management of decentralisation process described above. It more resembles to the traditional, political guidance
and control of decentralisation process
Ključne riječi
decentralization – Croatia; management of decentralisation process; local and regional self-government; subsidiarity principle; administrative reforms; democratisation and efficiency of local authorities
Hrčak ID:
135595
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Datum izdavanja:
5.3.2008.
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