Territorial Government in the Czech Republic

Michal Illner

Chapter 5 in Decentralization and Transition in the Visegrad, 1999, pp 80-101 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The processes of democratization which took place after 1989 affected all administrative layers of Czech society — not only at the national level but also at the local and regional levels. In fact, territorial decentralization, including the establishment of democratic territorial government, was one of the cornerstones of the post-November 1989 political transformation. In the 1990 founding parliamentary elections, decentralization was included in the programmes of all the important political parties. Decentralization has been approached on two levels: on the local level (rural and urban municipalities), and on the regional level (lands and provinces). So far, the results have been rather different. While at the local level, decentralization has proceeded fairly well and can be considered successful (which does not imply that all problems of local government have already been solved), until recently little or no progress has been made at the regional level. In this chapter both the local and regional government reforms will be examined. The two, being part of one system, cannot easily be separated, and any discussion concerning one territorial level will necessarily touch upon the other.

Keywords: Czech Republic; Local Government; Communist Regime; State Administration; Innovation Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230374645_5

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