Upon successful completion of the course, students will possess the following Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge:To recognize the degree of intervention of the institution of local self-government in the organization of the state.To determine the characteristics and objectives of local governmentTo distinguish the essential differences in the relations between the state and local government

•Skills:To evaluate the position of local self-government in European integration.To examine alternative methods of implementing public policies at the local level by the public authority closest to the citizen

•Abilities:To design and implement local authority promotion systems To plan how to distribute local and general affairs between levels of administration, To reorganize and strengthen with targeted actions - policies the way citizens participate in the administration of local affairs.

Application of acquired knowledge

Decision making

Group and autonomous work

Work in an international and interdisciplinary environment

Generating new research ideas

Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the local government system as an administrative and political institution. Local government, an institution guaranteed by the Constitution, guides local politics through its elected members (by universal, direct and secret elections) and at the same time manages its affairs with its own staff and budget. Its powers correspond to those of the central government. however, local government administers its powers in a manner that differs from that of the state. The right to representation of citizens before the decisive administrative bodies of municipalities and regions, their participation - even under conditions - in the meetings and participatory administration institutions are factors that differentiate the local government from the central government. At the same time, the responsibility of local government, which is assigned by the central government, connects citizens and the state, the terms and conditions under which this relationship is connected, makes local government the level of administration that promotes the interests of citizens in local level, but also in the environment of the European Union.

1. The administrative and political dimension of the institution of local self-government. The Constitutional guarantee.

2. The Charter of local autonomy

3. Local Self-Government and Decentralization

4. The concept of local case

5. Representative local democracy - Eminence of local Authorities - Electoral system.

6. System of municipal and regional government.

7. Organization of local government services.

8. Alternative forms of administration of municipal and regional affairs.

9. Participatory institutions in local self-government - Local Democracy.

10. Local and Regional Ombudsman-Relationship with the Independent Administrative Authorities.

11. Statutory position of electors.

12. Relationship between central administration and local administration - administrative supervision.

13. The implementation of European policies in local self-government.

Language of Assessment: Greek

Method of Assessment:

(a) Short paper (30%)

(b) Τerm exam (70%)

that includes:

-Multiple choice questions

-Short answer questions

-Problem-solving in public policies

1. M. Kotea (1997) “Local governance and urbanization”

2. T. Kostopoulou (European Union and local self-government

3. A. Makridimitri (2000) Decentralization and self-government

4. A. Makridimitri-M-H Pravita, (2013), Public Administration"

5. C. Babounis (2008), "Aspects of local self-government in the Greek state"

6. G. Papadimitriou (1993) Local self-government in modern democracy

7. Cultural Society of Crete (2010) "State, democracy and self-government"

8. G. Sotirellis, (2008), "The reform of local self-government"

9. J. Stewart (2006) 'The Modernization of Local Government'

10. M. Tomaras (1999), "The Greek Local Government"

11. P. Fanarioti, Public administration, decentralization and self-administration

12. N-K Chlepa (1994) "The Multilevel Self-Government"

13. N-K Hlepa, (2005), "The Mayor"

14. Ch. Chrysanthaki (2010) Kallikratis: The new law for self-government and decentralized administration