Local government as a form of public authority in decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

Местное самоуправление как форма публичной власти в решениях Конституционного Суда Российской Федерации

Yelkina, Alexandra (Елькина, Александра) () and Faizullin, Ildar (Файзуллин, Ильдар) ()
Additional contact information
Yelkina, Alexandra (Елькина, Александра): Ural State Law University
Faizullin, Ildar (Файзуллин, Ильдар): Ural State Law University

Munitsipalitet: ekonomika i upravlenie / Municipality: Economics and Management, 2021, 76-85

Abstract: Following the 2020 constitutional reform, the principle of a unified system of public authority was enshrined at the constitutional level. Now the RF Constitution ensures that local bodies and public authorities are included into a unified system of public authority and interact for the most efficient problem solving in the interests of the population of the respective territory. When assessing the new constitutional principle, it is important to consider the constitutional-legal nature of local government as the level of public authority, closest to the population. For this purpose, on the basis of the formal-legal method, the given article explores the formation and development of the local government concept percieved as a form of public authority in the practice of the RF Constitutional Court. It is concluded, that over the past twenty years, the concept has been consistently developed of the local government as of a public-territorial self-organization of the population, and at the same time, as of integral part of a unified mechanism of public affairs administration. At present, local government is understood primarily as the lower territorial level of public authority, integrated into the general institutional system of the welfare state functions implementation. According to the above-mentioned ideas, the 2020 constitutional reform, in terms of consolidating the principle of a unified system of public authority, is a natural continuation of the ongoing transformations of the constitutional-legal status of local government. In this connection it is worth noting that the federal legislator should consider in legal regulation all aspects of local government, which is such a multifaceted concept.

Keywords: local government; public authority; level of public authority; unified system of public authority; constitutional reform; the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://repec.ranepa.ru/rnp/mncplt/m21107.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rnp:mncplt:m21107

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://municipality.expert

Access Statistics for this article

Munitsipalitet: ekonomika i upravlenie / Municipality: Economics and Management is currently edited by Igor Vydrin

More articles in Munitsipalitet: ekonomika i upravlenie / Municipality: Economics and Management from Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by RANEPA maintainer ().