Moscow program of renovation of housing in the context of inter-party competition

Abstract

The most prominent social-economic project started by the Moscow administration in 2017-2018 is the Housing Stock Renovation Program. The main political parties represented in the capital offered the citizens their interpretations of the initial variant of the program and the suggestions on its improvement. The author compares the potential of the political parties in the capital's and the federal authorities, shows the main aspects of the cross-party cooperation and competition regarding the legal documentation of the best, to their mind, variant of the program. The author also investigates the interconnection between the political parties and the civil society and, particularly, the specifics of the mass street protests, where the Muscovites expressed their ambiguous attitude to the renovation program. The author concludes that so called «systemic» parties showed a high level of the cooperation, in the process of which they were able to develop mutually acceptable amendments to the initial variant of the renovation project and to document them in the relevant legislative acts. It is also important that the parties were able to widely inform the citizens on the essence of the project, to get acquainted with the public opinion regarding this issue through various «feedback» channels, and to weaken the state of anxiety experienced by a part of the society to some extent. The author supposes that during the implementation of such programs nationwide, it is reasonable to consider not only the mass experience of their normative-legal documentation but also the mechanisms of achieving the cross-party consensus demonstrated in Moscow as well as the interaction with the civil society on the solution of the relevant problems of social-economic development.