In this article, we deal with the problematics of the creation of new municipalities in Montenegro. We put the ongoing legal and political dynamics regarding local government organization in Montenegro in their historical and regional context before analyzing the political developments that led to movements for the formation of new municipalities. We explore specific cases in order to examine the ethnic/national background of such movements and to study the causes and consequences of such a way of creating local organizational units. As the central issue is the influence of ethnopolitics on the formation of local administration units in Montenegro, particular emphasis is placed on how the dynamics of Montenegrin party politics influence the country’s legislative framework of local administration and its implementation. The article analyzes the role of the parties representing national minorities in the decentralization process, and the developments of minority–majority relations in regard to local ethnopolitics. It also investigates the effects of decentralization in Montenegro on ethnic tensions and strengthening of local ethnic identities over national identity. As there was no existing literature dealing with ethnic decentralization in Montenegro, this article attempts to fill a gap in this research area. Through our analysis of the case of Montenegro, we try to emphasize and compare wider tendencies in the post-Yugoslav Western Balkans, using a combination of legal, political, and historical sciences perspectives. Population censuses and legal sources are used, showing the volatility and diversity of the ethnonational map of Montenegro; besides, a number of legal documents are extensively analyzed.

在本文中，我们处理了在黑山建立新市政当局的问题。在分析导致新市镇成立的运动的政治发展之前，我们将黑山地方政府组织在其历史和地区背景下持续的法律和政治动态。我们研究特定的案例，以研究此类运动的种族/民族背景，并研究这种创建本地组织单位的方式的成因和后果。由于核心问题是民族政治对黑山地方行政单位形成的影响，因此特别强调黑山政党政治的动态如何影响该国地方行政立法框架及其实施。本文分析了代表少数民族的政党在权力下放过程中的作用，以及在地方民族政治方面少数民族与多数派关系的发展。它还调查了黑山权力下放对族裔紧张局势的影响，以及在民族认同方面加强了当地族裔认同。由于黑山尚无有关种族权力下放的文献，本文试图填补这一研究领域的空白。通过对黑山案件的分析，我们试图结合法律，政治和历史科学的观点，强调和比较后南斯拉夫西部巴尔干地区的广泛趋势。使用了人口普查和法律依据，显示了黑山民族地图的易变性和多样性；除了，