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IVANENKO, Igor Nikolaevich; ZINISHA, Olga Stanislavovna  y  RODIN, Denis Yakovlevich. The bureaucratic factor of the problems of local self-government at the present stage. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.1, pp. 295-302.  Epub 10-Feb-2022. ISSN 2218-3620.

The article is devoted to analyzing trends and prospects of bureaucratization of local self-government in modern Russia. The expanding trends of administrative control hinder the constructive implementation of Federal Law № 131, which is primarily aimed at liberating and strengthening the flexibility of local self-government structures. As a result of the theoretical analysis, it is established that the bureaucratic component is an integral characteristic of the state, which provides the managerial functionality of the supreme power. However, initially, within the bureaucracy itself, there are prerequisites that, at the current stage of statogenesis, lead bureaucratic structures to functional self-denial turning into an increasing antithesis. This is primarily due to the quantitative expansion of civil servants despite managerial expediency, which generally constrains a variety of public initiatives and reduces the potential for flexible response to internal and external challenges. The Russian historical experience of the development of the administrative sphere indicates the existence of a set of determinants that contribute to bureaucratization, as for the objective conditions that predetermined the need for a rigid controlling power vertical, as well as subjective characteristics embodied at the mental and cultural-civilizational level (the values of paternalism, etc.). According to the study results, the bureaucratization of local administrations emasculates the principles of democracy inherent in local self-government, alienating the majority of the population from participating in solving pressing problems.

Palabras clave : State; statogenesis; bureaucratization; managerial expediency; local self-government.

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