Местное сообщество: проблема институционализации

Abstract

The strategic goal of spatial development of the Russian Federation is to ensure its stability and balance. The study of domestic and international experience shows that the most important component that ensures this stability is the institution of local self-government. Recently, the Russian Federation has adopted a lot of regulatory and legislative acts that allow us to talk about the ongoing reform of local self-government as one of the components of the spatial development of the country. At the same time, the fundamental issue of local communities as subjects of local self-government has not yet been clearly resolved. The article substantiates the incorrectness of the provision that a local community is just a population living in the relevant territory. It is concluded that local communities are a historical category; local communities arise at a certain stage of development of socio–territorial communities and represent a fundamental category for understanding the very essence of local self-government.