English Translation

253.) 7.) Post-war democracy and the problem of start-up and administrative decentralization One of the important problems of post-war democracy will be the centralization and decentralisation of the state and government power and administration, as well as the centralisation and de-centralization of legislative power. Almost all the new democracies in Europe in the last wars have exaggerated the centralizing tendencies of their regimes, although democracy has to take back and take up enough of the local and regional needs of the population and the right combination between the necessary level of state unity and the necessary degree of local freedom. Regionalism, which began to develop well a few years before the current crisis and TO the present war in some European countries, was the right slogan for democratic politics and administration. Democracy, which emphasizes the freedom of persuasion and exclusion, gives every component of the people and the state automatic the right and the possibility to emphasize its special Winches and Needs and therefore led very easily to separatist, atonomisti- tic or decentralizing tendencies, the personal interests, the rivalries and the atomizing aspirations of the political parties in the democratic regime systematically use these special desires and needs of the individual components of the state and the people, calling them by exaggerating them, or de-magogisoh abuse them, in democratic states much-