Abstract

Citizens join the democratic governance mechanisms participating in local governance and solution of local problems. Local administration plays a key role in these processes. The present article considers the main ways of electing mayors, municipal leaders in the USA and the UK. In the study we consider the experience of these countries and development of the local administration institution in Russia. According to the study results the authors made proposals to improve the Russian legislation in order to create additional opportunities for different categories of citizens to influence the process of formation of local authorities.

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