Einleitung Kommunale Sozialpolitik – neue Herausforderungen, neue Konzepte, neue Verfahren

Local Government Planning for Social Benefits With Example of Hannover City

“… globalization of markets, what extorts transformation from industrial society to knowledgebased society, strengthening competition between cities and regions;  the increased polarization of incomes, as a result of economic structural changes, as well as increase in the number of poor people and socially disabled groups;  educational poverty, comprising a significant proportion of poverty;  emergence of parallel societies and an increasing importance of city's district as the central area of integration;  social and demographic changes, namely development of population, structure of age and lifestyle with very diversified local and regional characteristics;  climatic changes, influencing on the energy transformation;  privatization of public services and economization of administration, what reduced overall possibilities for management and control; it leads to the problem of the uniform city's policy pursued for the administrative units and societies in the city (Dahme and Wohlfahrt, 2011).…”

“…Therefore, due to access to quantitative data, the city of Hanover was chosen as a practical example to present in the article. Social legislation contributes to the provision of worthy existence of citizens, creates equal conditions for free personal development, particularly for young people, it protects and promotes the family, it enables the acquisition of resources for maintaining a household with means of freely selected business activity, as well as it prevents from the emerging particular burdens for social units (Dahme and Wohlfahrt, 2011). In the Federal Republic of Germany, the municipal social duties are pursued according to the legal provisions binding in a particular land, to which such municipality belongs (Bundesregierung, 2017).…”

“…reporting on the condition of municipality development, needs, social benefits, compliance with obligations for the provision of support to young people, making independent management decisions for construction of schools, etc. (Dahme and Wohlfahrt, 2011). Thus, the city's social policy is supported with complex mandate based on the purposes of social policy for whole land, as well as it may intervene in multiple various areas of the municipality's activity, e.g.…”

Public Management in local government units in the example of the municipality of Mstów

“…Regional and local development measures taken by the modern administration fully play a key role in local government management. The Initiative Municipal authorities, their creativity, and skills depend, whether process management take the right direction and will be carried out with the pre-established strategy [2]. Appropriately adapted to the specificities of the organization or territorial unit, the appropriate management methods and the involvement of regional and local communities can help in the dynamic development of the municipality and improve the quality of life of citizens [1].…”