SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION IN THE CONTEXT OF TRANSITION TO A SINGLE-LEVEL MODEL OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION
S.N. Kalyugina, O.A. Mukhoryanova, A.I. Pyanov
North Caucasus Federal University, Institute of Economics and Management, Stavropol, Russia
Keywords: local self-government, institution of civil society, sustainable development, reform, two- and one-level models, state policy in the field of local self-government, financial and budgetary base, initiative budgeting
Abstract
In Russia, the transition of territorial organization and local self-government to a single-level management system is aimed at improving the level and quality of performance by regional and municipal authorities of their powers to resolve issues of local importance. The reform should ensure the integrated and sustainable development of municipal territories, create conditions for overcoming the unevenness of their socio-economic development. However, to date, the Russian scientific community has not yet developed an unambiguous understanding of the results of the transformations of the two-level system of the territorial organization of local self-government, because the issues of assessing their social, economic, legal and managerial consequences have not been sufficiently studied, knowledge of which should be used by regional authorities in the future to develop managerial decisions in the process of creating municipal and urban districts. The article analyzes the preliminary results of the administrative-territorial reform of local self-government on the example of the Stavropol Krai, which acts as a pilot region for its implementation. The methodology of this research is based on general scientific methods that combine institutional, economic and sociological approaches to analyze the problems and opportunities for the development of local self-government in Russia. The result of the study confirms the submitted hypothesis that the administrative-territorial reform of local self-government carried out in Stavropol Krai, as of today, has not improved the sustainability of socio-economic development of the region as a whole. Also, the reform has not contributed to equalizing the asymmetry of development of its municipalities, improving the efficiency of municipal officials, and revitalizing the operation of territorial public self-government.
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