Questions Connected with the Reform of Public Administration in Slovakia in Regard to the Nationally Mixed Areas. (English)

Problémy reformy verejnej správy na Slovensku vzhl'adom na národnostne zmiešané oblasti. (French)

This article focuses on questions connected with the reform of public administration in Slovakia in regard to the nationally mixed areas. The need to separate centralized state administration from local and regional self-administration became part of election programs of victorious parties and movements during elections 1990. Individual political subjects already then became build their own models of public administration system. In the case of Slovak Republic a possibility of local self-administration separated form state administrative can be contemplated. This arrangement would he guaranteed by constitutional law as it is in Czech Republic. However, there is always a question, if regions dominated by citizens of Hungarian nationality would accept local state administration without self-administrative dimension as it is in case of Czech Republic. The first level is dealing with political machinations in center, behavior of elites and interactions, dynamic of centrifugal and centripetal forces in the political system, complex of mutual interconnections among different levels of government, that is basically the principle of making politics "from up to down". Second level is dealing with political activities of individuals in their localities, inter-ethnic relations presented in process of their creation and basically deal with the question of making politics "from down up".