Abstract. 

Municipalities are the most numerous class of objects of public authority, its grassroots level (local self-government). The spatial organization of this multitude of objects in all countries from time to time under the influence of new political and economic circumstances undergoes restructuring, which results in changes in the number and scale, economic and social potentials of municipalities. When implementing such transformations, economic and political considerations can have contradictory effects, requiring at the same time both enlargement and reduction of the spatial parameters of municipalities. In this regard, there is a theoretical and practical problem of rational – balanced, taking into account economic and political factors – justification (choice) of their sizes. The study is based on the diverse and long-term international experience of reforming the spatial organization of municipalities. In the context of this experience, special attention is paid to the contradictory policy of post-Soviet Russian municipal reforms and counter-reforms.

Keywords: 

local self-government, municipalities, local self-government reform, spatial organization of municipalities, Russian municipal reform policy, consolidation of municipalities, international practice of restructuring the territorial organization of municipalities

PP. 3-12.

DOI: 10.14357/20790279230201

 

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