REGIONALISATION AND FEDERALISATION: TRANSFORMING WAYS OF THE SUBNATIONAL GOVERNANCE

Abstract

The Federalisation, regionalisation and local governance has been an important issue of the jurisprudence and administrative sciences. Although the differences of decentralised and federal systems have remained, several transformations could be observed and in several countries the model of the public administration has changed in the last decades. A convergence or hybridisation of the models can be observed: the competences of the municipal bodies have been strengthened. Although the boundaries between municipalities and member states of the federation have blurred in the governance of these entities, but the legal distinction between them remained solid: the regional municipalities with broad competences do not have statehood.