Sociological Analysis of the Role of Local Representative Organs in Society (on the Materials of the Pavlodar region)
The article presents some results of the sociological survey made by the author in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan. In the article the author says that the activities of local representative bodies should be improved in the direction of greater democratization and development of real local government, as this position is supported by the majority of the surveyed population. It helps to increase the importance of the social aspects of the institutionalization of local government, which in its development is based on institutions and civil society organizations, the various forms of civil participation and implementation of civil initiatives, and national traditions of joint solutions to local problems. Given circumstances defined the high scientific relevance of the sociological analysis of the problems of formation of local self-government and the development of a mechanism to institutionalize that opens broad prospects for further development of democratic processes and civil society in the Republic of Kazakhstan.