| Abstract [eng] |
The purpose of the research is to determine what impact on implementation of participatory governance has the attitude of Tauragė district municipality administration employees and residents towards participatory governance. Participatory governance takes an extremely important part in democratic governance. It is a process in which residents can directly participate in governance and influence the decisions. The cooperation between the interested parties (administration employees and residents) is an extremely significant part in this process. The rights to direct participation of the citizens are mostly governed by national law, where the principles and ways of participation are governed by municipal rules. After analysis of the legislation it was determined that mostly the ways of partial participation are legally provided for, and there are no clearly defined ways of high participation. The analysis showed that partial participatory governance is being implemented in Tauragė district municipality and residents are usually informed only about the adopted decisions. Also it was noticed that although participatory governance is implemented only partially, its influence is positive: more ideas are being generated and the governance transparency is increasing. The research revealed that the assessment of the reasons for non-participation of residents and administrative staff of the region is different. Furthermore, the residents of the region who have negative attitude towards participatory governance do not participate in decision-making process, therefore, in order to increase the number of participating residents and to improve perception about ways of participation it is necessary to take these actions: to spread as much as possible information about direct ways of participation and to publish their results on social media, press, and in town festivals. |
