Issue ? 33. August 2012

Constituent States of the Russian Federation and the Development of Representative Democracy Institution

Badri J. Nakashidze – Ph.D., professor, Chair of Legal Foundations for Public Administration, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
E-mail: nakashidze@spa.msu.ru

Zhanna I. Oskanova – Graduate student, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
E-mail: oskanova_janna@mail.ru

The article describes the perspectives of development of the institutions of representative democracy in the Russian Federation. The authors believe that this development has several aspects. Creation and improvement of the regulatory framework to establish the status, structure and organization of legislative (representative) bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as the principles involved in determining the formation of representative bodies at the subregional level are the most important ones. Regarding the definition the principles of representative government subregional level, the powers of public authorities of RF subjects are significantly narrowed due to the fact that the procedure for the formation of representative bodies of local self-governance is mainly determined in accordance with federal law (primarily the laws “On General Principles of Local Government in the Russian Federation” and “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the right to participate in the referendum of the citizens of the Russian Federation”) and municipal regulations.

Keywords

Constitution, elections, elections in the regions of the Russian Federation, Federal legislation, regional legislation, separation of powers, direct democracy institutions, municipal authority, municipal elections.