期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2005
卷号：14
期号：6 (80)
页码：1175-1198
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：In the text the author analyses the degree of decentralisation realised in Croatia after the year 2001. The mentioned year has been taken as a starting point due to the implementation of a number of legal changes initiated with the aim to achieve greater decentralisation. In the initial phase this undertaking was technically limited to the fields of education, health, social welfare and fire-fighting. In the analysis the author proceeds from the understanding of the concept of decentralisation taking into account first and foremost its functional implications. Based on the latter the most important are political, administrative and financial decentralisation. However, the author warns that decentralisation cannot be completely understood or analysed if not taking into consideration the decentralisation of the ability of the local government to autonomously shape local development. The author thus continues to analyse the first effects of the programme of new decentralisation after the year 2001. Data indicate that only 53 units of local government have taken over the financing of the decentralised activities of education, health and social welfare, while the obligation to fund fire-fighting has been taken over by 86 units (out of 500 and more). In short, decentralisation remains "too short". In investigating the reasons of the aforementioned fact, the author indicates that evident in most local government units is a long-term developmental inability which prevents them from acting as autonomous subjects of development. Especially observable is the lack of strategic awareness, underdevelopment of local institutions and normative foundation which does not ensue from the strategy of development. Therefore, concludes the author, decentralisation also has to include the formation of a parallel model of social development known under the term 'endogenous' development or development 'from below', within which the local government unit can realise its developmental autonomy allowing normative decentralisation to be transformed into real developmental possibilities and – advantages.
