The Phenomenon of Leadership in the Municipal Authority in Ukraine

Abstract

Within the framework of civil society, the state regulates only its main institutions and the main aspects of their functioning, without affecting the process of forming the will of a particular person in relation to this society and its institutions. Furthermore, the state creates appropriate conditions, and the choice remains for each concrete subject, who is free of state influence within the framework of local interest, but interdependent with other members of the territorial group (territorial community). This paper focuses on the local self-government (LSG) in Ukraine and the phenomenon of leadership in the municipal authority. We propose to consider local self-government from the points of view of the impact on the public authority, genetic-historical landmarks, the autonomy within the framework of modern national constitutionalism, the influence on the formation of the constitutional space of the state, the role of the leadership of local government in the modern international community, the predecimalization of local government activities, the international legal obligations of the state regarding the establishment and development of the leadership local self-government, the reformation of the national legal system; the necessity of forming a national model of the leadership of local self-government; the role of local self-government in the formation of civil society; from positions of social development; as well as the role of the leadership local self-government in innovative state-creative processes.