Local Self-Government as a Problem of Political Theory
The article aims at restoring local self-government as a research problem of political theory. In contemporary political science literature, local self-government is not treated as one of its normal, standard research problems. The main obstacle of its ambiguous position within political theory is,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Polish Political Science Yearbook |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2019401 |
| Summary: | The article aims at restoring local self-government as a research problem of political theory. In contemporary political science literature, local self-government is not treated as one of its normal, standard research problems. The main obstacle of its ambiguous position within political theory is, as I argue, the forced and imposed apolitical character of local self-government considered as a part of public administration. Despite some degree of organizational, especially institutional and legal, self-determination, the local self-government is not a political, i.e. sovereign entity. However, its non-sovereign status, which is legally established, does not exclude the existence of political potency in it. |
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| ISSN: | 0208-7375 0208-7375 |