The goal of the state should not be to secure the interests of a narrow circle of owners of financial-industrial groups. The main goal should be to ensure the human development of all residents of the country.
Governments of nation-states, confronting global structures, hide behind the interests of their citizens. Municipal and regional governments, in their confrontation with the central government, hide behind the interests of city and regional residents. But at the same time, in “real politics,” both fear real self-organization and solidarity, both of the entire population and of particular social groups, because it threatens their undivided power.
Our approach suggests that the human development state should be built on the model of the 4 C’s: subsidiarity, self-government, self-organization, solidarity.
For the human development state, solidarity and self-organization become not a threat to power, but a necessary condition for effective policy.
Subsidiarity – the principle of state structure, according to which, socio-economic problems should be solved at the lowest level (local, regional), at which their resolution is possible and effective. This means that the separation of powers requires the sharing of resources and puts the interests of regions and local government at the forefront of the state.
Self-government is a tool that the territorial community uses to ensure human development in the territory of residence. The transformation of a city from the periphery, for which the Center decides all socio-economic issues, into a province that decides for itself how to develop, what to produce, and with whom to trade, is impossible without strong self-organization.
Self-organization – in order for the principle of subsidiarity to be implemented throughout the vertical of governance (state-regional-local-personal) down to the bottom, to a specific street or house, it is necessary to develop and support the self-organization of the population – an instrument of public influence on decision-making at the local level.
Self-government without strong self-organization either turns into a feudal fiefdom of local FIGs or becomes a non-self-sufficient conduit between the political clans of the Center and local resources.
Self-organizing bodies (BODs) (house, neighborhood, district, etc.) prevent the transformation of local government into “feudal” fiefdoms. On the other hand, DOS can become a balance in the opposition of local authorities and the center. The development of self-organization leads to increased responsibility of local government and a higher level of public participation in making and implementing political decisions.
Solidarity – the public interaction skills that increase social capital and provide a rapid group response to a changing situation. Solidarity makes it possible to develop, among other things, cooperative interaction, creating an economic base for civic activism. To launch solidarization processes it is necessary to introduce various tools of collective activity, including through training in their use.