Development of special principles of local self-government in Lithuania

Self-government principles require that their statutory interpretation and concretization should not cause contradictions and inadequacies between new provisions formulated by legislature in the field of self-government and the essence and meaning of these principles. The chosen directions of reforms of local self-government can condition the reformulation of local self-government principles, the emergence of new ones and the dismissal of others. Therefore, it is important to go deep into the principles of self-government and their development. Problem analyzed in the article: development of special self-government principles and their formulation in the Republic of Lithuania. With an aim to determine the development of these principles and their formulation, Laws on Self-government of the Republic of Lithuania of 1990, 1994, 2000 and 2008 are analyzed. The aim of the article is to determine directions of development of special local self-government principles that characterize the basis for this institute in the Republic of Lithuania. The article reveals the essence of self-government concepts, characterizes types of self-government principles, and analyzes special self-government principles and their wordings. It also provides the analysis of constitutional self-government principles, overlapping special ones, and their changes. Legislative acts and document analysis methods, comparative and logical analysis methods, as well as generalization and induction methods are... [to full text