Various Civic Activities and Institutions and Their Impact On Local Level Governance in Slovakia

Year 2015, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 79 - 90, 15.10.2015

Jana Gašparíková

https://doi.org/10.25069/spmj.289941

Abstract

This presentation will concentrate on activities undertaken by two different types of organizations as well as the various manifestations of their activities. Utopia has had very deep involvement in civic activity in the area of participatory budgeting and Via Iuris is a professional organization involved with various protest activities, often concerning environmental issues.

Keywords

Governance, Slovakya

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