Political and legal means to ensure mechanisms of interaction between state organs and local cities’ authorities as tools to achieve public relations effectiveness

Политико-правовые средства обеспечения механизмов взаимодействия органов государственной власти и органов местного самоуправления городов как инструменты достижения эффективности публично-властных отношений

Adeyinka, Folasade (Адеинка, Фоласад) (), Pyrina, Maria (Пырина, Мария) () and Verbitskaya, Tatiana (Вербицкая, Татьяна) ()
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Adeyinka, Folasade (Адеинка, Фоласад): University of Ilorin
Pyrina, Maria (Пырина, Мария): Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
Verbitskaya, Tatiana (Вербицкая, Татьяна): Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Voprosy upravleniya / Management Issues, 2020, 21-31

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 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.

Keywords: urban policy; urban governance; democracy; urban development; local government; decentralization; international relations of cities; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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