TRANSFORMATION OF TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA’S REGIONS
https://doi.org/10.7868/S2587556618020048
Abstract
The theoretical issues of territorial organization of local self-government are considered, a definition of this category is proposed. It is stated that the territorial organization of local self-government in general should correspond to the hierarchy of the prevailing settlement systems and local communities. Factors, intermediate results and processes of transformation of territorial organization of local self-government in Russia’s regions in 2009–2016 are considered in details (after the finishing of the transition period of local self-government reform). The main source of information is the Rosstat data. Forms of transformation of municipalities of the first and second territorial levels are identified. The growing practice of transforming municipal districts in urban districts and minimizing the number of settlements composed municipal districts is criticized. Examples of new forms of territorial organization of local government in Russia’s regions are given. The conclusion of the inevitable variety of regional forms of territorial organization of local self-government in modern Russia is made.
About the Author
K. A. Chernyshev
Vyatka State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Konstantin A. Chernyshev
Kirov
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- The territorial organization of self-government system should correspond to the hierarchy of settlement systems and local communities.
- The number of grass-roots municipalities is declining in all federal districts and almost in all regions of Russia.
- The grid of second-level municipalities is transformed with the reduction in the number of municipal districts (“raions”) and an increase in the number of urban districts.
- The initiatives to reforms come from the regional authorities, not from the local communities.
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Chernyshev K.A. TRANSFORMATION OF TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA’S REGIONS. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(2):37-47. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S2587556618020048
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