TO THE ESSENCE OF MODELS OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE ERA OF POSTMODERNISM: DECISIONAL ASPECT

Abstract

The article analyzes the models of local self-government in the postmodern era. It is determined that during the long history of mankind many specific models of territorial organization of power in the countries in general have been formed, which are analyzed in detail by, for example, Ukrainian scientists V. Solovykh and E. Solovykh. They emphasize that the territorial organization of power is determined by such basic factors as: a) the administrative-territorial structure of the country (unitary and federal states); b) directly by models of selfgovernment (community (Anglo-Saxon) (Anglo-American), state (continental (French) and mixed model. It is proved that the separation of powers is an event of a single state power (it remains indivisible) between its main branches in the state, and the distribution of power is the distribution of such powers between central and local executive bodies. It is noted that conceptually (according to different models) local self-government as a complex social phenomenon has been and remains unchanged, as it is: a) the right to internal management of people's local affairs; b) the right to decide matters of internal administration under its own laws within the national territory; c) autonomy. Even more accurate and successful is the definition of “local government”: it is “a type of social governance in which the subject and the object of governance coincide, that is, the people themselves manage their affairs, make decisions together and act to implement them”. It is substantiated that in its conceptual, basic meaning the basic principles of its self-government were and remain unchanged in the models of local self-government, which are enriched, acquire all significance adequate to the needs of time and social practice of organizing human communities.