Scientific Journal SPATIAL ECONOMICS - Problematic results and perspectives of the local self-government reform in Russia

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Title of the article	Problematic Results and Perspectives of the Local Self-Government Reform in Russia
Pages	107—132
Author	Sergey Nikolaevich Leonov Doctor of Economics, Chief Researcher Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153 Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract	The article examines the premises, problems of implementation and results of the local self-government reform that began 25 years ago in Russia. The incentive for resurrecting of local self-government was not political, but economic details of decentralizing the governing based on the ideas of territorial economic accounting and during the years of reform the role of local self-government in the political system of the country had changed – from the local state authorities to the local self-governing authorities, technically independent, but virtually heavily intervened by the government. The article identifies the unsolved problems of the reform over establishing the basics of finance and budgeting for local self-government, when municipalities (based on functions and main sources of budget income) became removed from the development of economic base of corresponding territories, from the dynamics of investment, from the development of business. The actual results of the reform differ strongly from the goals declared. During these 25 years it was impossible to overcome low financial self-sufficiency of municipalities, the loss of population’s influence over formation and activity of local self-governing authorities, incorporation of local authorities into state authority, their particular ‘unitization’. The article substantiates the proposals of perfecting the socio-economic part of the reform in the framework of ‘evolutionary approach’
Code	338.43 (470 + 571)
DOI	10.14530/se.2017.3.107-132
Keywords	municipal reform ♦ local self-government ♦ decentralization of power ♦ local budget ♦ Far East
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For citation	Leonov S.N. Problematic Results and Perspectives of the Local Self-Government Reform in Russia. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2017, no. 3, pp. 107–132. DOI: 10.14530/se.2017.3.107-132. (In Russian).
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