DECENTRALIZATION THROUGH LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

Abstract

Any analysis of the origin and development of local self-government should respect the historical fact that the earliest communities were, in fact, the local communities, and it should be pointed out that the locality definition is much younger and the contradiction of this type of community with the wider politically organized community is the result. Local self-government is a very complex problem of political science and a complex phenomenon of political and constitutional practice. Starting from the point of view that the local self-government has its roots in the period prior to the creation of the state, it should be noted that modern local self-government has its closest empirical source in feudalism, where it is personified in “free cities” and “free communes”. In this paper, we will base ourselves on the decentralization through local self-government. In the context of such a historical development, European theory, to a significant degree, under the concept of decentralization implies local self-management. Namely, decentralization in this sense has the meaning of transferring the state’s affairs to other institutions that are not in its organizational mechanism, but have a certain degree of autonomy. The term decantalization has a broad meaning in political and legal theory, which we will try to explain in the scientific work itself.