Public opinion is an integral part of social and political life. The degree of its consideration in management processes reflects the state of democracy in the country. Public opinion institutionalization enables to improve its development process monitoring and to consider it in public management. The authors denote principal conditions of public opinion institutionalizations and analyze, in accordance with them, the degree of democracy and civil society development in Russia.

Keywords: public opinion; institutionalization; civil society institutions; democracy; public management.

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