NEPOSREDNI IZBOR NOSITELJA IZVRŠNE VLASTI -MOGUĆNOSTI UTJECAJA NA RAZVOJ LOKALNE I PODRUČNE SAMOUPRAVE.

In the area of administration in broader sense, especially in the field of local authorities management new ways and methods of government and management have been introduced for thirty years. Within this framework the paper deals with the research of contemporary approaches to local and regional self-government development and issues and problems that might emerge from the application of the new Law on Election of the Heads of Districts, Mayors, County Executives and the Mayor of the City of Zagreb. The aim of the paper is to indicate certain lack of clarity in the Law itself that could endanger normal functioning of executive power in local and regional self-government authorities as well as to point out advantages that could contribute to development of local and regional self-government in the Republic of Croatia at large. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]