Local Government in Yugoslavia and the Constitutional Reform of 1974 A Case Study of Ljubljana

Abstract

Abstract Worker self-management in Yugoslavia has been extended from the economic sphere to the urban political economy. General directives came from the 1974 Yugoslav constitution and were detailed and implemented at the local level. In this study, the efforts of Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital city, are con sidered. A three-chambered local government was selected by a delegational system representing working organizations, neighborhood groups, and socio political bodies. In addition, planning bodies called self-managing communities of interest, that bring together both producers and users of public services, have been established. Public service companies, independent of city government, provide services to the general population. Yugoslavs have assured direct citizen participation in the urban economy and moved away from government production of public services.