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Local Self-Government

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The Local Self-Government textbook is a collective work of a group of professors who belong to five different generations of academic staff from the Department of Constitutional Law and Political System at the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus” in Skopje.

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The textbook analyzes all important issues related to local self-government starting from the first occurrences of local life and the organization of the first human communities explained through the prism of city-states-poleis, through the medieval local communities and cities to the modern local principles and standards for quality local organization of the citizens.

In the textbook, special review and analysis is given to all the conceptual characteristics of local self-government, the historical development of local self-government, the relationship and differences between local self-government-decentralization-deconcentration, the theories of local self-government, the typology, the models and levels of local organization, the local self-government in many European countries etc.

There is a special analysis of the European standards and values of local self-government in the law of the Council of Europe, in the EU law, the national experiences and legal solutions in the context of the European rules and principles.

A significant part of the textbook is dedicated to the historical evolution of the Macedonian local self-government, both in the previous socialist system and today, as a modern democratic self-government.

All constitutional and legal solutions from 1946 until the independence of the country are analyzed, as well as the Macedonian Constitution from 1991, including all laws on local self-government, territorial organization of the country, financing of local self-government units, administration, public sector employees, the Electoral Code etc., important for explaining all elements of the Macedonian local self-government model. Through the analysis of the legal solutions, the reader gets detailed information on the functioning of the local administration in the country, the rapport of the local self-government with the central government, the problems with decentralization, the forms of direct and indirect realization of democracy in the local areas, the financing of the municipalities, the special status of the capital city of Skopje and many other issues. 

All the important challenges that the Macedonian local self-government has gone through, both from a legal and a political point of view, including the difficulties in the decentralization process, and the problems with the transfer of competencies from different areas from central to local level, have been identified and analyzed. 

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