Roles of Deconcentrated State Administration: From Integrative and Implementing to Coordinative and Strategic Role

Sa？etak On the basis of the institutional-legal analysis of the tasks assigned to the deconcentrated state administration by the central government during the development of territorial management, the author develops a classification of the roles that deconcentrated state administration can have in administrative-political system. The roles of a deconcentrated state administration are understood as goals that the central government intends to achieve through the institution of a state territorial representative and / or by organizing territorial state administrative bodies and units. The integrative, implementing and coordinative-planning roles of deconcentrated state administration are distinguished. When realizing integrative role, deconcentrated state administration is in function of ensuring integrity of territorial system of administration; when realizing implementing role, deconcentrated state administration is in function of ensuring execution, preparation and lawful implementation of state regulations; when realizing coordinative-strategic role, deconcentrated state administration is in function of promoting social development. Their characteristics are described by the following dimensions: values they promote, task holders, the territorial levels state administrative bodies and units are organized on, and the relations of deconcentrated state administration with the central state government and local self-government units. The paper contains the first systematic overview of tasks that can be performed by deconcentrated state administration, regardless of the degree of social development or the applied organizational model of deconcentrated state administration in a particular country, in recent scientific literature