Challenges to the Citizen. Participation in the Local Self-Governance
Challenges to the Citizen. Participation in the Local Self-Governance

Author(s): Koka Kighuradze
Subject(s): Civil Society, Governance
Published by: EECMD - Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy
Summary/Abstract: Modern forms of democratic governance are based on the public participation principle. Development objectives require good governance, which implies citizen participation in the governance process. Currently, we are witnessing a trend of disenchantment and alienation among politics and the public. Politicians are perceived as a group of elected officials, though distanced and separated from the public, to govern and solve public issues for a specific period of time. This is an increasingly troublesome tendency in Georgian society too, demonstrated in the latest massive survey, «Citizen Satisfaction with Public Services in Georgia», conducted by the Georgian research company ACT with the assistance from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Georgia, Swiss Cooperation Office for the South Caucasus (SCO) and the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC). The survey research shows the citizens’ attitudes towards the public services provided by the central and the local governments. Some tendencies revealed by the survey requires comprehensive analysis.

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