Modern Criteria for the Effectiveness of the Mayor as a Leader in the Local Government System

Abstract

The article considers the modern criteria for the effectiveness of the activity of the mayor as a leader in the system of local self-government, on the basis that the organizational and legal forms of activity of the mayor are a formal manifestation of the organizational activity of local self-government bodies and act as one of the main organizational elements.

Four main criteria for the effectiveness of the mayor's activity are analyzed , namely: social, intellectual, economic and procedural.

Based on the study of the set of criteria for the effectiveness of the mayor, the author proposes to use a modeling method that reflects not only the qualitative characteristics, but also the subjective and objective aspects of this activity, while distinguishing several types of models: general ideal model; specific organizational and technical models; real models.

The attention is focused on the social criterion of the effectiveness of the mayor, which is the main, primarily because the local society directly assesses all the activity of the mayor.