Дуализм правовой природы местного самоуправления в контексте конституционной реформы Российской Федерации (на примере местного самоуправления в городе Новосибирске)

Abstract

The Constitution of the Russian Federation this year includes the legal structure “unified system of public power”, which includes local self-government bodies in addition to state authorities. This article examines the duality of the legal nature of local self-government, on the example of the city of Novosibirsk, analyzes the essence of local self-government as a public authority of a municipal formation and as an institution of civil society; justifies the need for local selfgovernment bodies to have power, imperative powers. The article examines the legal and organizational basis for the right of the population of the city of Novosibirsk to participate in the management of municipal Affairs, to resolve issues of local significance through the implementation of civil initiatives. The article analyzes such forms of direct democracy as instructions from voters to deputies, appeals from citizens to local self-government bodies, participation of citizens in sessions of a representative body of a municipal formation, as well as such forms of public authority by local selfgovernment bodies as municipal control, and bringing guilty persons to administrative responsibility for committing an offense by administrative commissions of a municipal formation.