Abstract: Each central government strives to create a responsible, transparent and effective local government, which will offer quality services to citizens, while the law defines citizen participation at different levels in the decision making process. In our country inactivity of the citizens at the local level is still present. Citizens are still restrained when it comes to lack or poor quality of public services. We still perceive the holders of state functions as powerful people hard-to-communicate with. On the other hand, public institutions do not involve citizens in policy-making processes, and some state officials even see themselves as owners of the public functions they hold. One would say, despite the legal framework that gives the main directions of citizen participation, there is still a need for developing and organizing capacity for self-organization in the communities in order to encourage and implement initiatives related to the well being of the majority of the citizens.
Keywords: Units of local self-government, Municipality, the City of Skopje, Decision-making process.
Title: Citizens’ Participations in the Republic Of Macedonia
Author: Elena Radeva
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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