The authors did analyze main stages of local self-government development in Russia, marking out the completion of its formation as really functioning and actively developing democratic institute and mechanism of the civil society tasks’ solution at local levels. The authors have revealed problems hindering the processes of local self-government development. They consider the state administrative patronage to be the main problem. The authors did describe main trends in the development of local self-government through the struggle of two tendencies: centrifugal-democratic and of vertical power strengthening.
Keywords: democracy; local self-government; municipal power; civil society; state; institutionalization; direct democracy.
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