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example is unemployment issue (Velšic, 2004), or have not known what
bodies are created and for what reason (Klimovský, 2007). Problems have
risen also due to ambiguity of self-government units’ or their bodies’ deno-
mination (Klimovský, 2006a; Klimovský, 2006b; Nižňanský, 2006), and due
to ambiguity of denomination of self-government legal enactments (Kukliš,
2005), which names are the same or similar to those of legal enactments of
state administration bodies. Last but not least, the reason for many pro-
blems linked to public administration relates to dissatisfaction with acti-
vities of state or public servants (Mesárošová, 2005), and with activities of
communal or regional politicians, officials, or other representatives (Kli-
movský, 2006c).
There are several existing problems concerning, directly or indirectly, poli-
cy-making processes in the Slovak conditions which have to be solved in
the future. Their different seriousness would probably be the cause of their
different work out in terms of time, but the relevant political actors cannot
always put them aside and will have to solve them sooner or later.
High rate of dynamics related to a territorial (spatial) organization of sub-
national general state administration during the last 100 years shows that
the question linked to such organization has not been handled strategical-
ly. Additionally, four different political approaches have already appeared
since 1990, and it complicated not only the action of relevant state admi-
nistration authorities and citizens’ attitudes to those authorities but also the
action of public administration system as such.
Very interesting ongoing issue for regional policy is the one linked to re-
gional division of the Slovak territory. Its attractiveness emerges from two
tendencies. On one side, in the view of the European union and its grant
programs, it would be logical to prefer division abreast of NuTS II. On the
other side, by virtue of strengthening of public participation, the increase of
regional units, especially in the Eastern part of the SR, would be desirable.
One way or another, the establishment of a separated regional unit of the
capital city is necessary and proved by experience of many countries, ergo
it might be a matter of near future.
A review on activities of the superior territorial units’ bodies during their
first term of office makes out considerable differences in their work. The
Board of Banská Bystrica Superior Territorial unit approved two- or three-
times more resolutions in the examined period than a board of any supe-
rior territorial unit with a comparable number of its sessions. Over the way,
the same board approved the lowest number of general decrees. This points
out at a big political fragmentation of this body, and therefore it preferred
an easier way to make decisions. In contrast, the activities of the Board of
Trenčín Superior Territorial unit, where all seats were being occupied by
the representatives of one party, it is obvious that Trenčín board did not
approve as many resolutions but on the other hand it utilized the possibility
o
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example is unemployment issue (Velšic, 2004), or have not known what
bodies are created and for what reason (Klimovský, 2007). Problems have
risen also due to ambiguity of self-government units’ or their bodies’ deno-
mination (Klimovský, 2006a; Klimovský, 2006b; Nižňanský, 2006), and due
to ambiguity of denomination of self-government legal enactments (Kukliš,
2005), which names are the same or similar to those of legal enactments of
state administration bodies. Last but not least, the reason for many pro-
blems linked to public administration relates to dissatisfaction with acti-
vities of state or public servants (Mesárošová, 2005), and with activities of
communal or regional politicians, officials, or other representatives (Kli-
movský, 2006c).
There are several existing problems concerning, directly or indirectly, poli-
cy-making processes in the Slovak conditions which have to be solved in
the future. Their different seriousness would probably be the cause of their
different work out in terms of time, but the relevant political actors cannot
always put them aside and will have to solve them sooner or later.
High rate of dynamics related to a territorial (spatial) organization of sub-
national general state administration during the last 100 years shows that
the question linked to such organization has not been handled strategical-
ly. Additionally, four different political approaches have already appeared
since 1990, and it complicated not only the action of relevant state admi-
nistration authorities and citizens’ attitudes to those authorities but also the
action of public administration system as such.
Very interesting ongoing issue for regional policy is the one linked to re-
gional division of the Slovak territory. Its attractiveness emerges from two
tendencies. On one side, in the view of the European union and its grant
programs, it would be logical to prefer division abreast of NuTS II. On the
other side, by virtue of strengthening of public participation, the increase of
regional units, especially in the Eastern part of the SR, would be desirable.
One way or another, the establishment of a separated regional unit of the
capital city is necessary and proved by experience of many countries, ergo
it might be a matter of near future.
A review on activities of the superior territorial units’ bodies during their
first term of office makes out considerable differences in their work. The
Board of Banská Bystrica Superior Territorial unit approved two- or three-
times more resolutions in the examined period than a board of any supe-
rior territorial unit with a comparable number of its sessions. Over the way,
the same board approved the lowest number of general decrees. This points
out at a big political fragmentation of this body, and therefore it preferred
an easier way to make decisions. In contrast, the activities of the Board of
Trenčín Superior Territorial unit, where all seats were being occupied by
the representatives of one party, it is obvious that Trenčín board did not
approve as many resolutions but on the other hand it utilized the possibility
o
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