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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

10. Sub-Municipal Units in Slovenia: Experiences from the Past and Policy Advice for the Future

Authors : Irena Bačlija Brajnik, Roman Lavtar

Published in: Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter presents sub-municipal units in Slovenia, not only since their establishment in 1994, but the path-dependency since old socialistic regime that lead to partial continuity of the sub-municipal system. Currently, the sub-municipal map is vibrant. There are almost 1,200 sub-municipal units in 212 municipalities (out of 212, 138 municipalities have implemented them), with population ranging from 9 to 34,340. Aside establishment of sub-municipal units and legal framework chapter also provides meta-analyses on two aspects of sub-municipal units functioning: how these units are utilized as mechanisms for participation and to what extent are they endowed with authority to undertake their tasks. In conclusion, the authors provide opinion on the existing system of sub-municipal units in Slovenia and changes recently adopted strategy of the development of local self-government in Slovenia 2020 will bring to this system.

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Footnotes
1
The system lacks upper (regional) level of local self-government, albeit some functional structures are in place to overcome regional absence.
 
2
Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia 57/1996.
 
3
Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia 94/2007—official consolidated text OCF, 76/08, 79/09, 51/10, 40/12—ZUJF in 14/15.
 
4
Slovenian local self-government system enables citizens to participate in different forms of direct local participation. The most direct is the municipal assembly. It is an assembly of all the inhabitants of a local community. Unlike other forms of direct decision-making, the municipal assembly is an informal convention in which all inhabitants can collaborate, making it therefore an important element of cohesiveness and integration in the local community. Another form of direct democracy in the municipality is a referendum. A referendum is of a more recent origin than the municipal assembly and it is also a more formalized and organizationally and financially demanding form of local democracy. The third form of Slovenian local democracy is called the ‘popular initiative’. The institute of popular initiative enables a group of at least 200 local residents to demand an arrangement of any local issue from representative body. The fourth form of direct local democracy is the right to petition. This right enables people to send written petitions to a representative body.
 
5
At the end of March 2001, Ljubljana city council of has established seventeen sub-municipal units with elected sub-municipal councils.
 
6
Written correspondence between the MPA and both mentioned municipalities, Ljubljana 2015–2016.
 
7
Alienation of citizens to their local environment (see Vrhovac and Bačlija 2008).
 
8
The number of inhabitants within a single sub-municipal unit varied between 9 and 34.340 citizens, and the number of sub-municipal units per municipality was between 2 and 29. Territorial asymmetry is obviously also mirrored to the sub-municipal level.
 
9
Public Information Access Act, Official Gazette No. 51/2006, 117/2006, 23/2014, 50/2014, 19/2015 and 102/2015) and Resolution on Legislative Regulation Official Gazette No. 95/2009.
 
10
The proposal is being presented to three existing associations of municipalities in Slovenia; according to ministry’s regulatory plan, the LSGA should be amended before the end of 2017.
 
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Metadata
Title
Sub-Municipal Units in Slovenia: Experiences from the Past and Policy Advice for the Future
Authors
Irena Bačlija Brajnik
Roman Lavtar
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64724-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64725-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64725-8_10

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