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Local Self-Government in Yugoslavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Jovan Djordjevic
Jovan Djordjevic*
Affiliation:
University of Belgrade
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Local self-government holds an important, if not the most important, place both in the constitutional system of the new Yugoslavia and in the process of her formation and development. One of the starting points for the constitutional revision which has taken place by stages in Yugoslavia since 1950 is the reorganization of local self-government. This reorganization has been carried out under the General Law on People's Committees of April 1, 1952, and other republic laws enacted subsequently

In order to understand the organization and the activity of the system of local self-government, we must describe in general outline the course it has followed in its development. The organs of local self-government are called the “people's committees.” They were organized under the name of "National Liberation Committees" at the very outset of the struggle for national liberation, that is, in the early days of the uprising against the invader in August, 1941.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 1953 , pp. 188 - 200
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1953

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References

1 Editor's note: Marshal Tito has heralded Yugoslavia's current constitutional changes as marking sharp contrast with the experience of the USSR. To provide readers of the Review with an authoritative explanation of what Yugoslav political scientists believe the contrast to be, this article has been solicited.

2 English translations of the Constitution of January 31, 1946 and of supporting legislation have been made available in the periodical New Yugoslav Law (Union of Yugoslav Lawyers’ Association, Belgrade), and in Collected Yugoslav Law (3 vols., Belgrade, 1952).

3 See New Yugoslav Law No. 1, 1950.