City quarter communities - a new quality in Slovenian local democracy?

Brezovšek, Marjan (author), Bačlija Brajnik, Irena (author)

The participation of residents of local self-governing communities in decision making within the Slovenian local self-government system is relatively little known and researched upon. Particularly, this applies to empirical research. The urban municipality of Ljubljana (henceforth the UML), encompassing the Slovenian capital, has had city quarter communities as new narrowest forms of local self-government system since 2001. They have considerable potential of population's political participation in decision-making process which has been relatively unexploited. The analysis ofthe issues (regarding the functioning of the narrowest parts of the municipality in Slovenia) performed on the basis of real-life examples of city quarter communities of the UML shows that there are still unexploited possibilities of population and city quarters participation in decision making within the political bodies. In principle, residential quarter communities represent a bridge between the residents and the urban municipality's representative bodies. Especially in city quarter communities residents are dissatisfied with they way their proposals are communicated to urban municipality bodies and relevant response. Residential quarter communities only have a slight impact on decision making in the UML.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2005
• Number of pages: brez pag.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-33173
• UDC: 32
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24332893
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015