Seminar 5. Foreign experience and the basics of the comparative municipal analysis (2 hous).
1. The doctrine of separation of powers: applicability on the local level.
2. Organizational form of local self-government in Ukraine.
3. Organizational forms of local self-government in foreign countries (the USA, the UK, Germany). The professor will divide the group in a way, that 1/3 will study one of the listed countries. Please be sure you know which decision to analyze, or consult the head of the group.
4. Municipal government in the foreign countries (the USA, the UK, Germany). The professor will divide the group in a way, that 1/3 will study one of the listed countries. Please be sure you know which decision to analyze, or consult the head of the group.
Keywords:
Comparative approach, comparative research, comparative method, the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Federal Republic of Germany.
Questions:
1. List 4 positive features of the application of the doctrine of separation of powers on the local level.
2. List 4 negative features of the application of the doctrine of separation of powers on the local level.
3. What organizational form of local self-government is used in Ukraine?
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Present the accurately and neat typed or written chapter in a single folder before the beginning of the seminar. 1. Write the description of the organizational form of local self-government in Ukraine (up to 50 words). Please add the schemes to your description of the organizational form of local self-government in Ukraine. 2. Write the essay – comparative analysis of the local self-government in Ukraine and in the foreign country (the USA, the UK, Germany). The professor will divide the group in a way, that 1/3 will study one of the listed countries. Please be sure you know which decision to analyze, or consult the head of the group. Please compare the system of local self-government that is used in the country, the administrative division of the country and then move to the organizational form (forms) of the municipal government, forms of the local democracy, jurisdiction of the municipal government and, at last, to the material and financial basis of the local self-government. Please add the schemes to your descriptions of the organizational forms (models) of local self-government. |
Student’s
Portfolio – chapter 5:
Documents to be analysed:
Law of Ukraine of 21.05.1997 ‘On Local Self-Government in Ukraine’.
QUESTIONS FOR THE ORAL EXAM
1. Comparative municipal research.
2. Legal systems and municipal systems.
3. Theories of the local government.
4. The European Urban Charter (1992): purpose, philosophy and structure of the Charter.
5. History of local self-government in Ukraine: an overview.
6. History of local self-government in Ukraine: Magdeburg law, Lithuanian statues, local government in Ukraine as the part of the Russian Empire (excluding Zaporiz'ka Sich) The professor will divide the group in a way, that 1/3 will study one of the listed countries. Please be sure you know which decision to analyze, or consult the head of the group.
7. Constitutional provisions about the local self-government.
8. Basic laws of Ukraine on the local self-government.
9. The Charter on the Participation of Young People in Municipal and Regional Life (1992), revised in 2003.
10. Worldwide Declaration of Local Self-Government (1985).
11. United Nations Human Settlements Programme: goals and achievements.
12. Sustainable communities. Community development.
13. Self-organized bodies of population in Ukraine.
14. The Council of Europe’s Congress of local and regional authorities.
15. European standards of the local self-government and their implementation in Ukraine.
16. The European Charter of Local Self-Government (1985): an overview and implementation in Ukraine.
17. The European Convention on the Participation of Foreigners in Public Life at Local Level (1992): an overview and possibilities of ratification by Ukraine.
18. The doctrine of separation of powers: applicability on the local level.
19. Organizational form of local self-government in Ukraine.
20. Municipal government in foreign countries (the USA, the UK, Germany). The professor will divide the group in a way, that 1/3 will study one of the listed countries. Please be sure you know which decision to analyze, or consult the head of the group.
21. Organizational forms of local self-government in foreign countries (the USA, the UK, Germany). The professor will divide the group in a way, that 1/3 will study one of the listed countries. Please be sure you know which decision to analyze, or consult the head of the group.