Decentralization of Authorities as a Direction for Increasing the Efficiency of Local Self-Government

Abstract

After the achievement of independence, the process of forming a new system of territorial administration in the Republic of Armenia began in 1991. The reason was that in Soviet Armenia, as well as in other republics of the Soviet Union, the state administration system was highly centralized. Therefore, it was necessary to make a transition to a more decentralized democratic system, which was the imperative of the time. Organization issues of state and local authorities largely depend on the territorial structure of the state, as the activities of territorial administration and local self-government bodies are carried out within the boundaries of administrative territorial structural units. The administrative territorial division of each state implies a comprehensive system of political, economic, social and geographical divisions of the territory specified by the Constitution or other international acts.