or inclinations towards the elected. Town’s deputies tried to be a model only for local
residents and criticized self-government only in their elective towns.
The essence of «regional-individual theory» can be explained from the following
aspect: «state – region – city – municipal self-government». The state following its
own administrative initiative founded cities and broadened civil government,
delegating a necessary set of elements used by communities for answering local and
state demands on the principles of decentralization. Regions had proper individual
particulars, stereotypes, values, historic past, identities which influenced forming,
development and activity of local-self-government. Ii its turn, municipalities were
given individual features in managing municipal affairs, forming budgets, fulfilling
economic, educational, medico-sanitary policy and had an influence on forming «local
patriotism». It was expressed in a system of values or orientations towards individual
interests of each town as an indicator of high level concern for their own place of
residence in broadening modernization, industrial and trade initiatives as well. The
concept of regional-individual self-government in the south of Ukraine was backed up
by existence of large municipal property, great influence of trading operations, earlier
and faster modernization tempos, rate of financial growth, higher level of development
of city territory (town improvement, building water-supplies and canalization,
development of education and medico-sanitary work).
The conditions for the regional-individual approach are:
1. special character of the interaction of the imperial centre and the southern
Ukrainian region;
2. regional identification which influenced activity of self-government bodies and
understanding city’s specifics in development of the state;
3. specifying priorities in values according to an individual set of affairs of
municipalities in the sphere of building means of communication, modernizing ports,
development of cultural-educational institutions, medico-sanitary, engineering-
technical measures as well;
4. priorities according to city patriotism in solving problems, not in accordance
with the state’s interests;
5. individualism in choosing and forming municipalities’ staffs;
6. value stereotypes in municipalities;
7. individualism in modernization problem-solving;
8. forming proper regional-individual specifics in realization of economic policy.
In regard to establishing new «centre-region» relationships the institutions of
municipal self-government had special regional-individual characteristics:
1. there were lots of land resources at their disposal, they were busy with trade,
commerce, at the expense of which they gained more revenues to budgets due to taxes
from local population;
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