Governance and Socially Responsible Behavior in the Local Municipality

Abstract

The chapter deals with the topic of governance, socially responsible behavior, their interconnection and specifics in public sector implementation. It is divided into three parts. The first part of the chapter defines the governance in the public sector and its specifics at the local level, relationship between governance and socially responsible behavior from the theoretical point of view. In the second part of this chapter, we present the selected examples of activities in local municipalities in the Slovak Republic that describe the socially responsible behavior as a part of Local Governance. It includes a case study in the form of empirical research results on socially responsible behavior in a city district—Rača, one selected Slovak municipality, as well as the description of good examples from other municipalities in the Slovak Republic that positively develop the relationships with their stakeholders and are a part of socially responsible behavior of local municipality (participatory budgeting, participative planning, and community organizing). The last part of this chapter summarizes the main features and links between governance and socially responsible behavior at the local level from the theoretical and practical point of view.