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Political and legal means to ensure mechanisms of interaction between state organs and local cities' authorities as tools to achieve public relations effectiveness
Abstract The actuality of examined issue is predetermined by necessity of aligning state policy with the actual status of cities as active actors in policy making process on domestic and international level. The main objective of this study is to review contemporary peculiarities of the role of local governm... view more
The actuality of examined issue is predetermined by necessity of aligning state policy with the actual status of cities as active actors in policy making process on domestic and international level. The main objective of this study is to review contemporary peculiarities of the role of local governments within cities in policy making process in order to underscore the relevance of actual status of citites and its legal framework by political tools. The work relies on the use of teleological analysis (in order to understand the importance of implementing complex of political and legal tools within urban state policy to elaborate mechanism of building due public relations in the state), a comparative method (as part of a comparative study of the legal and actual statuses of cities as actors of domestic and external political relations), and functional analysis (when identifying city competence). The general discourse on the local government in cities allows to determine the need for a combination of political and legal tools in building relations between the state power institutions and local authorities in cities. Due urban politics presums developing the good image of city abroad, based on its identity to gain despite the competition worldwide benefits such as being elected as location of important international event. This paper examines both the inherent contradictions between the legal foundation and domestic and external actorness of cities.... view less
Keywords
decentralization; sustainable development; democracy; local politics; urban development; international relations
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
urban policy; urban governance; local government; international relations of cities; urban problems
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 21-31
Journal
Management Issues (2020) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22394/2304-3369-2020-1-21-31
ISSN
2304-3369
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0