Status of Serbian Towns in the Light of Recent Efforts Towards a National Decentralisation Strategy

Milosavljević, Bogoljub and Jerinić, Jelena (2016) Status of Serbian Towns in the Light of Recent Efforts Towards a National Decentralisation Strategy. Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava : časopis za teoriju i praksu javne uprave, 16 (1). pp. 77-106. ISSN 1848-0357

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Abstract

Decentralisation has been recognised as one of the key priorities of the 2014 Serbian Public Administration Reform Strategy. To that end, the Serbian Government has taken steps towards preparing a national decentralisation strategy. Serbia has a single-level and almost completely monotype structure of local government, in which towns have the same organisation of bodies, and almost identical competences as municipalities do, including some minimal exceptions for the Town of Belgrade, as the country’s capital. In the light of the ongoing discussions on decentralisation in general and, more specifically, on the reform of the local government system, the authors comment on some of the issues in the centre of that discussion, particularly those relating to the status of towns in general and the status of the capital, and provide proposals for possible overall reforms of the local government system. Consequently, these issues will be analysed from the perspective of the need to alter the current constitutional framework.

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