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PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 1 \u2022 pp. 119\u2013145<\/p>\n

REFORMS WITHOUT REFORMING: TRENDS IN LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND DECENTRALIZATION IN CROATIA<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Language:
English<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vedran \u0110ulabi\u0107<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
\n<\/b><\/span>e-mail:<\/strong> vedran.dulabic@pravo.unizg.hr<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/span>ORCID ID: <\/span><\/strong>0000-0002-2206-7391<\/p>\n

Iva Lopi\u017ei\u0107<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
\n<\/b><\/span>e-mail:<\/strong> iva.lopizic@pravo.unizg.hr<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/span>ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1157-0602<\/span><\/p>\n

Pravni zapisi, No. 1\/2025, pp. 119-145
\nOriginal Scientific Article
\nDOI: <\/b>10.5937\/pravzap16-58592<\/p>\n

KEY WORDS
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Local Self-Government Reform, Decentralization, Local and Regional Self-Government in Croatia, Development Trends in Local and Regional Government.<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The paper presents, analyzes, and discusses changes in the Croatian local self-government system and assesses their drivers, whether these changes can be considered real reforms, and why certain changes occur and others do not. The paper covers a 30-year time span of local self-government development \u2013 from the early 1990s, when Croatia introduced a modern local self-government, through the 2000s when Croatia transitioned to the system based on political decentralization, to recent reform activities. The paper shows that there have been several \u201creal\u201d reforms that have raised and addressed very important issues, while other \u201creforms\u201d can mostly be described as partial changes that occur when there is significant political will for them or under strong external pressure. Political actors and their role of veto players, together with path dependency, remain crucial explanatory factors of local self-government development in the past three decades in Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 1 \u2022 pp. 119\u2013145 REFORMS WITHOUT REFORMING: TRENDS IN LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND DECENTRALIZATION IN CROATIA Vedran \u0110ulabi\u0107 Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law e-mail: vedran.dulabic@pravo.unizg.hr ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2206-7391 Iva Lopi\u017ei\u0107 Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law e-mail: iva.lopizic@pravo.unizg.hr ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1157-0602 Pravni zapisi, No. 1\/2025, pp. 119-145 Original Scientific Article DOI: 10.5937\/pravzap16-58592 KEY WORDS Local Self-Government Reform, Decentralization, Local and Regional Self-Government in Croatia, Development Trends in Local and Regional Government. 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