INVOLVEMENT OF THE POPULATION IN SOLVING LOCAL ISSUES: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE ALTAI TERRITORY
The article defines initiative budgeting - the Russian version of the participatory budgeting method widely known abroad, which appeared in the late 1980s in Porto Alegre (Brazil). The emergence of participatory budgeting was a response to the need for citizens and government representatives to work together in solving urban problems. The successful experience of Porto Alegre first began to be replicated in Brazil, and then in other Latin American countries. As a result, participatory budgeting began to spread around the world. In Russia, the most common practice of initiative budgeting was the program for supporting local initiatives, which was launched in the Stavropol territory, demonstrating the possibility of actually involving citizens in solving local issues and improving the quality of the dialogue between the government and the population, increasing citizens «satisfaction with local government procedures and trust in them. The paper presents the experience of participation of the Altai territory in the practice of initiative budgeting, which is considered by the authors in the context of modern concepts of regional research and formation of strategies for territorial development.