MUNICIPAL POLITICAL CULTURE AND FORMS OF POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF LOCAL COMMUNITY

Abstract

A local community represents a key subject in the process of self-organization, uniting the people living on the historically formed economically independent territory of one or several settlements, on the basis of common environment, values, traditions, customs and the need to solve share problems of local importance. The ability of a local community to independently detect and realize municipal interests and needs, coordinate the relations between all the subjects of local political process, to be active citizens in solving problems of local importance and express public opinion on key issues of social life not only make the basis of public-power relations at the local level, but also form municipal political culture.