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Comments on local and regional self-goverment in Croatia
Juraj Hrženjak
Sažetak
The author deals with the development of territorial organisation in Croatia between 1886 and 1992 and between 1992 and 2009. He comments on the claims that there are too many municipalities, towns and counties, and proceeds with the opinion about the employment records. The paper contains an analysis of legal regulation of local self-government in the Constitution, the Law on Local and Regional Self-Government, and a number of other laws. It stresses the flaws of these pieces of legislation as one of the basic indicators and possible causes of insufficient decentralisation. The author opposes the opinion that there are too many local self-government units by enumerating several arguments according to which it is first necessary to determine a much wider self- government scope, to ensure sufficient local financial sources to perform services for the citizens, to direct local units to more flexible inter-municipal cooperation, to deal with ethical standards, and to create other conditions for normal functioning of local and regional self-government. Only after that comprehensive task has been
completed, it will be possible to determine which units do not meet basic conditions for survival. The paper contains a number of suggestions for legal framework improvements and improvements with regard to the functioning of territorial selfgovernment.
If these suggestions were realised, it would be possible to reduce the
high level of centralisation and bureaucratisation of Croatia, to the benefit of its
citizens and its economy
Ključne riječi
local and regional self-government – Croatia,; decentralisation; municipalities; towns; counties; self-government scope; territorial organisation
Hrčak ID:
136031
URI
Datum izdavanja:
2.12.2009.
Posjeta: 2.231 *