VZNIK KRAJSKÉ SAMOSPRÁVY A REGIONÁLNÍ POLITIKY V ČESKÉ REPUBLICE
FORMATION OF REGIONAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL POLICY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Author(s): Josef Smolík
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Government/Political systems
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: regional governments; decentralisation; regional policy; higher-level territorial self-governing units;
Summary/Abstract: The presented article focuses on the characteristics, origin and development of the establishment of regions in the Czech Republic. The basis discussions concerning decentralization, self-government and regional self-government establishment in the Czech Republic and the basis characteristics of territorial self-government units will be described. The article also introduces selected political concepts from the course of the 1990s, which focused on the formation of higher territorial units. Legislative documents and issues that are in the competence of individual regional self-governments will also be discussed. An important agenda of individual regional councils is also regional policy, which will be presented and described in more detail. The aim of the article is to present the process of the establishment of regions in the Czech Republic and the competences of regions in the field of regional policy. It is a case study, which was carried out on the basis of relevant literature and data from the Czech Statistical Office. The main finding of the article is the analysis of individual processes that led to the emergence of regions in the Czech Republic on the basis of the ideas of individual political parties on the issue of regional establishment and on the establishment of regional policy.

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