| Title : | Territorial Consolidation reforms in Europe | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Pawel Swianiewicz, Editor | | Publisher: | Budapest : Open Society Institute | | Publication Date: | 2010 | | Pagination: | 341 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-963-971916--3 | | General note: | Includes index (p. 333-341)
Includes bibliographical references | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Democracy - Europe, Central
Local government
Local government - Europe, Eastern
Public administration
| | Class number: | 351 | | Abstract: | Local territorial organization at the lowest level of towns, municipalities, and villages has changed in many countries in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe since 1990. Territorial fragmentation has been a recent trend in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Macedonia, and several other countries. This was often a reaction to earlier territorial consolidations introduced by the communist government in an undemocratic manner, without any public consultation (like in the former Czechoslovakia and Hungary). After 1990, decentralization and a paradigm of local autonomy were often understood in a way that gave the right to become a separate local government to almost each settlement unit, even if that unit was a tiny village. Attempts to create or maintain larger territorial jurisdictions were seen as a violation of local autonomy. As a result, in several countries, there was a significant proportion of very small authorities, many of which had much less than 1,000 residents. Extreme examples of villages like Bidovce in the Czech Republic or Prikry in Slovakia, had fewer than 10 citizens. 3 Conversely, there were examples of territoriality consolidated countries (such as Yugoslavia/Serbia, Montenegro, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Poland) where the median size of the local government unit was much larger, though none of them had less than 1,000 residents. But the phenomenon of territorial fragmentation at the lowest tier has been widespread. Figure 1 provides a graphic illustration of this phenomenon in the individual countries of the region. | | Contents note: | Territorial Consolidation Reforms in 'Old' ED Member States; Territorial Consolidation Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe; Less Than Consolidation Reform, More Than the Status Quo; Territorial Consolidation - Related Issues; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=18233 |
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