Local self-government in Lithuania in 1990-2013: changes of the competence of municipalities

There are many research papers on local self government since 1990s till present in Lithuania. However, according to the author, there is a lack of research papers where the dynamic (changing) Lithuanian local self government system would be analyzed systematically (i.e. not just a separate aspect (element) but the entire local self-government system consisting of separate and linked together aspects (elements)). The author had published several articles in the academic journal „Public policy and administration“. In this article the author presents opinion and judgment based on more than twenty years’ worth of gathered knowledge about such aspects of local self-government system as system of administrative-territorial units, the national and international legal acts regulating local self government, the main definitions – local municipality and local authority – as well as their development throughout the period of 1990 till present and the like