Authors : Olga V. Yakhina, Nikita S. Vavilov and Grigoriy A. Vasilevich
Abstract: The development trend of Russian legislation and foreign statutory acts testifies the establishment of a legal basis for involvement of the population and civil society institutions into decision making at the local level. Realities of development of the Russian statehood testify to the forming and the establishment of the civil society institutions in the state. And though the municipal practice demonstrates raising of a tendency to the activity of the citizenry to decide the matters of local significance they can’t realize effective control over the active state authority and the local self-government to the full extent. The study introduces the study which explores necessity of the involving of population in process of providing municipal services. The researcher analyze established practice in this sphere of activity of society, consider opinion of scientists-theorists in this question, retrace the evolution of inferences, valuable for the law practice. Conclusions of the researchers are reduced to the need of improvement of the existing Russian legislation on local self-government, the offer of particular formulations of propositions of law. In the offers much attention is paid to the principle of publicity in activity of local self-government bodies to the establishment of standards and legal mechanisms for independent public evaluation of quality of providing municipal services.
Olga V. Yakhina, Nikita S. Vavilov and Grigoriy A. Vasilevich, 2016. Mechanisms of Public Participation in Providing Municipal Services: Publicity Questions. The Social Sciences, 11: 1839-1842.