LOCAL COMMUNITY IN THE SYSTEM OF STATE GOVERNANCE

Abstract

The paper deals with universal and contemporary phenomena, phenomenon of management and the phenomenon of local 
community. The governance implies a continuous activity of planning, directing, controlling, evaluating, and re-routing some 
government's activities for its implementation and goal achievement. Management system appears as: personalistic, 
territorial and functional management.  The main aim of the territorial and functional management or governance is to 
ensure the best possible conditions for material production and service delivery. The proper course of management 
processes in social systems is carried out through an instrument of institutional and executive levels with the presence of 
feedback, which closes the system of governance.  Local community, as territorially narrowest and lowest hierarchical 
organizational unit in the country, has a dual significance in the system of governance, because it appears as an executive 
level, as well as initiator of new information and giver of feedback on the needs of local communities. In addition it has its 
own system of governance that goes from the local community to the individual and in the reverse order, from an individual 
through the local community and further to a higher level or to the state.