The Change of Public Administration and Its Impact on Azerbaijan Local Governments System

Whatever their politcal systems are, all the countries have local administrations in their administrative structures. However, in every country there are differences with regard to the power, authority, responsibility areas and struktures of the local administrations. Local administrations within the unity of the country administration system are the public juristic persons , which provides services for the people and of which organs are chosen by the people. In all the federal, unitary countries there is a paralel between the efficiency and power of the local administrations and the culture of democracy. Even there is a paralel between the power of the local administrations and the economic development of the country. In sum; there is a paralel between the local administration and local democracy and economic development and democratization. Even though there are contrary arguments, local administrations have important functions in the protection of the state’s integrity. Because self-governing people develop themselves with participation to administration and they become integrated to the nation. Azerbaijan is a young country that had its independence after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. Azerbaijan was first under the body of the Tsarist Russia then the Soviet Union. This study aims to examine significant inner and outer factors that causing local governmentsin Azerbaijan coming out from past to present; and put forth legislative regulations that local governments in Azerbaijan passing on in order to come to present situation