Slobodan Jovanović has, as an examp

Slobodan Jovanović has, as an example of a very developed local self-government
being gained over a long period, pointed out the English self-government "within which
there was not any representative of the state's bureaucracy, any organ that would
correspond to the French prefect or the Serbian district chief" and within which the "local
government affairs were not divided to the affairs of original or to the affairs of
transferred competence, but all the local government affairs were considered the affairs
of the original competence."12