A comparison of organisation of local and regional government in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the local and regional government system in the Czech and Slovak Republic and to hand over a clear outline of major differences within a mixed and separate model of public administration practice. The script is divided into five chapters which are further compartmentalised. The first chapter is dedicated to general questions, terms and principles related to topic of the thesis, especially defining local and regional model of public administration and its main features. Beside the strengths, this part also points out some partial problems related with applying both models of public administration. The second chapter is bringing in a brief excurse into relation of state administration and self-government from the beginning, since year 1848, till the Velvet Revolution in year 1989, pointing out the evolution of public administration models. Emphasized is the evolution of local and regional public administration after the year 1989, being analysed by author within the chapters three to five, presenting a core of whole thesis. The third chapter is dealing for most with the reconstruction of local territorial self- government and description of social-historic circumstances under which the new legal regulations emerged. Thesis did not neglected the local state..