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“State Administration” vs. Self-Government in the Slovak and Czech Republics

In: The Economics of Centralism and Local Autonomy

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  • Phillip J. Bryson

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Under the central planning institutions of communism in Czechoslovakia, local governments were largely just symbolic and did not enjoy self-determination. The national party made all decisions impacting local governance; at the local level, central agents commissioned to perform “state administration” (státni správa) implemented these decisions. This was strict hierarchical management with complete central government control over local decisions. Central planning in Czechoslovakia collapsed two decades after the Prague Spring of 1968. The Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague brought the hopes of that spring to an end by the restoration of the regime’s dictatorial control, but in 1989 the central planning regime did finally disappear. That enabled a renaissance of local self-government (samospráva) in Czechoslovakia.

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  • Phillip J. Bryson, 2010. "“State Administration” vs. Self-Government in the Slovak and Czech Republics," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Economics of Centralism and Local Autonomy, chapter 0, pages 3-21, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-11201-8_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230112018_1
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