AUTONOMY OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN TERMS OF PUBLIC CONTROL

Artem Likhoshva¹ and Tatiana Mikheeva²*
¹Postgraduate, Mari State University, The Russian Federation, law @marsu.ru
²Prof. Dr., Mari State University, The Russian Federation, tnmiheeva @marsu.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract 
The goal of the research consists in the one of the contemporary issues of local government - public control at the municipal level. It is considered from the perspective of the expanding autonomy of population in municipal formations in local matters. Public control breaks new ground for citizens to exercise their constitutional rights to the local government. Various methodological techniques used by the author in this study contribute to the successful review of the question. They cover general scientific and special legal methods of knowledge. As general scientific methods analysis and synthesis were used. Method of ascension from the particular to the general was applied to figure out final conclusions. Legalistic and comparative law methods of cognition were also used in the study, they refer to the special legal methods. Conjunction of the methods let analyze Federal law provision “On the basis of public control in the Russian Federation”. Analysis of the provisions of the law in terms of the possibility to monitor the municipal authority actions showed obvious advantages of the legal act. Numerous subjects of the public control received legal adjustment in it in the form of civic chambers, social councils. Thus an enormous resource of civil society institutions at the municipal level may be involved in the legislative enactments for public control. It is not only claimed to be an innovation but also positively characterizes the public control law. However, the result of a critical understanding of the law was to identify obvious gaps that restrict the rights of citizens in the sphere of public control. The citizens, in violation of the principle of the local government autonomy are not included in the number of independent subjects of public control. They can participate in public control only in special groups, inspections or public associations.

The other legal gaps were established as capable of adversely affect the implementation of the law. The most effective way to concretize the identified omissions is stated by the authors in accepting municipal regulations concerning public control. As a result a number of actual proposals capable to force implementation of the public control at the municipal level were submitted.

Keywords: local government, public control, citizens, autonomy.