Public management mechanism for the optimization of the interests of the state and local communities in the public administration system in Ukraine

• Main Author: I. V. Kostenok
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Grani 2013-09-01
• Series: Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ
• Subjects: публічна влада, публічне управління, соціальне управління, транспарентність, легітимність, демократія, громадськість, відповідальність
• Online Access: https://aspects.org.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/57
• ISSN: 2311-6420; 2413-8231

The article deals with the modern understanding of public authority and its essential properties such as transparency, legitimacy and democracy. Local government institutions are considered as the basis of local public authorities. The author describes Ukraine as a country of “new democracy”, which is in the transitive state and, therefore, faced with the problem of underdevelopment of democratic institutions, as leaders of civic participation in governance processes. Stresses the importance of studying the institutional environment within and against the background of which is the establishment of local government practices. The author notes that the power of local government is primarily that it initiates the movement for democracy “from below.” Through it, citizens come to understand that democracy - it is personal involvement of each for society, rather than a set of formal electoral procedures. Do not forget also that the abstract democratic right to freedom realized including in particular the right to local self-government. A sense of responsibility for the common cause is usually quite changes people. Even most passive of which it gradually turns into a socially active individuals. When the number of people in the population exceeds a certain critical point, then we can talk about the presence of civil society in the country