Methodological Foundations and Problems of the Study of Political Capacity of Local Government in Russia: Preconditions and Circumstances for the Formulation of Basic Theoretical Models (part one)

The article offers an author’s view on the prerequisites and difficulties of finding methodological grounds for investigating the problem of deploying the political potential of local power in modern Russia. The text of the publication reveals and formulates the main range of issues that need to be disclosed to explicate the author’s vision of the prospects for realizing the opportunities for interaction of local authorities, as a will to self-organize the population of territorial loci, and the forms in which they objectively exist today in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation . It is shown how the spontaneous accumulation of the political potential of local self-government in modern conditions can be beyond the regulatory management impact of state authorities and management, and in this connection, the thesis is based on the inadequacy of modern ways of recording and controlling the conditions and results of the activities of the generative centers of democratic democracy in the local Scale. An attempt was made to substantiate a number of intermediate conclusions regarding the author’s proposed research program in the problem of local government administration and its potentialities, and outlined prospective directions for further study of the identified problematic issues.

1. Aleksandrov A. A., Tarbayeva I.S. Civil participation in local government // Administrative consulting [Upravlencheskoe konsul’tirovanie]. 2016. N 12. P. 63–71. (In rus)

2. Ankersmit F.R. Political Representation / Transl. from English. A. Glukhova Moscow : Publ. House of the Higher School of Economics, 2012. (In rus)

3. Achkasova V. A. The political potential of the creative class // Politex [Politeks]. 2014. V. 10. N 4. P. 27–35. (In rus)

4. Baghdasaryan V. E., Sulakshin S.S. The highest values of the Russian state. Scientific monograph. M. : Scientific expert [Nauchnyi Ekspert], 2012. (In rus)

5. Barabashev G. V. Local self-government. M. : MGU-press [Izdatel’stvo MGU], 1996. (In rus)

6. Bezlepkin N. I. Discourse of management // Administrative consulting [Upravlencheskoe konsul’tirovanie]. 2013. N 4. P. 109–116. (In rus)

7. Vasetsky A. A., Shubina N. V. Problems of local government in St. Petersburg [Problemy mestnogo samoupravleniya v Sankt-Peterburge]. SPb. : Publishing House of the NWAPA [Izdatel’skij dom SZAGS], 2008. (In rus)

8. Vitkovskaya T.B. Local political elite in conditions of social transformations // Administrative consulting [Upravlencheskoe konsul’tirovanie]. 2011. N 1. P. 100–111. (In rus)

9. Vulfovich R. M., Gimelshtein Ya. G. Managed city: past, present, future: Monograph. SPb. : Publishing House of the NWAPA [Izdatel’skij dom SZAGS], 2009. (In rus)

10. Vulfovich R. M., Lobko V. N. Municipality-transformer: principles and mechanisms of functioning. SPb. : Publishing House of the NWIM-RANEPA [Izdatel’stvo SZIU RANHIGS], 2012. (In rus)

11. Gutorov V.A. On some aspects of the formation of political and philosophical discourse in modern Russia // Political expertise [Politicheskaja ekspertiza]. 2016. V. 12. N 1. P. 4–28. (In rus)

12. Krasnolutsky G. N. Horizons of the Russian democracy // Administrative consulting [Upravlencheskoe konsul’tirovanie]. 2013. N 5. P. 50–57. (In rus)

13. Kruzhkov A. V. Reform of local self-government in the Russian Federation: political results. M. : Modern Economics and Law, 2003. (In rus)

14. Mau V. A. Crises and lessons. Economics of Russia in the era of turbulence. M. : Publishing house of Gaidar Institute [Izdatel’stvo Instituta Gaidara], 2016. (In rus)

15. Morozov O. V., Vasiliev M. A. Stability of federated systems (methodology issues). M. : Delo, 2015. 232 p. (In rus)

16. Pylin V. V. Civil Society and the State: Problems and Ways of Development // Administrative Consulting [Upravlencheskoe konsul’tirovanie]. 2015. N 6. P. 16–23. (In rus)

17. Russian statehood and modernity: problems of identity and historical continuity: coll. of papers / ed. by M.B. Smolin; Rus. Inst. of Strat. Issues. M. : RISI, 2012. 396 p. (In rus)

18. The Russian state in the historical dimension / ed. by A. Kh. Daudov, S. I. Dudnik, I. D. Osipov. SPb., 2013. (Proceedings of the History Department of St. Petersburg State University, Vol. 15). (In rus)

19. Territory and power in the new and contemporary history of the / ed. by V. N. Zakharov. M. : ROSSPEN, 2012. 407 p. (In rus)

20. Local governance in developing countries / ed. A. Shah. M. : All World, 2010. (In rus)

21. Shamakhov V. A., Balashov A. I. New socio-political normality and lessons of modernization of the post-Soviet system of public administration // Administrative consulting [Upravlencheskoe konsul’tirovanie]. 2016. N 12. P. 6–15. (In rus)

22. Gnevko V. A. Municipalities — Roots of Democracy and Economics. Deerfield, IL: Society&Science, 2012.