Osadní výbory a jejich samosprávný potenciál

Jaroslav Čmejrek, Jan Čopík
Neighbouhood Committees and its Self-governing Potential
The Czech Republic is characterised by a disintegrated nature of settlement structure. There are about 6,250 municipalities in the country with only 10.2 million inhabitants. This fragmentation impedes progress in public administration reform, decentralization and especially establishment of effective self-government at municipal level. The paper deals with neighbourhood committees, which the council may set up within subdivisions of the municipality. A subdivision will, as a rule, correspond to a former municipality hat later merged with another municipality. The article focuses on a problem of neighbourhood committees, their role in historical development of the Czech local public administration and their self-governing potential in public administration reform.