- Author:
Łukasz Święcicki
- E-mail:
lukasz.swiecicki@uph.edu.pl
- Institution:
University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6346-2825
- Year of publication:
2019
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
531-542
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2019401
- PDF:
ppsy/48-4/ppsy2019401.pdf
The article aims at restoring local self-government as a research problem of political theory. In contemporary political science literature, local self-government is not treated as one of its normal, standard research problems. The main obstacle of its ambiguous position within political theory is, as I argue, the forced and imposed apolitical character of local self-government considered as a part of public administration. Despite some degree of organizational, especially institutional and legal, self-determination, the local self-government is not a political, i.e. sovereign entity. However, its non-sovereign status, which is legally established, does not exclude the existence of political potency in it.
Charles Taylor
Carl Schmitt
legitimacy
sovereignty
local government
political theory
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