Functions of the capital city in the political and territorial structure of the state

Abstract

The capital is one of the backbone institutions in the political and administrative structure of the state. This is not only the location of the central authorities, the center for managing political processes in the country, but also the most important political institution that forms, reproduces and transforms its statehood, primarily influencing the political-territorial structure, the system of relations between "center-regions"and the regional state policy. This understanding of the capital city raises the question of why does the political and administrative structure of the state involve the allocation of a capital city, i.e. in other words, the inevitable division of the country into the center and regions, the formation of potentially conflicting social groups: residents of the center and residents of the periphery? And another question arising is what functions does such a division perform and how does it affect the nature of political processes in the state as a whole?.