PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: DEMOCRATIC RELATIONSHIPS AND LEADERS

By: Yuri Suvaryan, Division of Armenology and Social Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia suvaryan@sci.am

In the system of modern democratic processes, elections of supreme state authorities and local self-government bodies are of the utmost importance, which essentially determine the future of the state and the purposeful fulfillment of its mission, as leadership at the macro- and micro-levels is a determining factor of the effectiveness of governance. The fundamental task of leadership in the system of public administration consists in the selection of such leaders who possess the known qualities of not a formal but a real leader. In order to participate in democratic processes with knowledge of the facts, it is necessary to have basic civilizational and political maturity, to be able to understand the intricacies of democratic elections, to believe not in words, but in deeds, the path taken and the results of the activities of the candidates participating in the elections, to distinguish populism from real achieve¬ments, so that true leaders win. Complex issues of strategic development of the country, budgetary regulation of financial flows, ensuring macroeconomic stability and security of the state, etc. are solved in the state legislative and executive authorities. e. This means that, unlike in business, where the choice of an effective leader is determined by personal interests in obtaining high incomes, in the system of public administration there are multifaceted interests that are not of a personal, but of a state, public nature. Therefore, for the selection of democratic and transformational leaders as leaders and representatives in state authorities and local self-government, it is very important to establish legislatively certain criteria for evaluating such qualities of future leaders as the style of working with subor¬dinates, initiative, the ability to implement innovations, the ability to make managerial decisions in various situations and taking into account the high needs of people.

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