Specific features of conflict of interest regulation in the municipal service
The municipal service is a special power institution that exercises the functions of preparing and implementing management decisions, through which the implementation of regional and municipal policies. Specificity of the municipal service creates opportunities for the existence of conflicting interests - the individual, social groups, the society and the state itself, whose clash in the administrative process leads to the emergence of various conflict situations. A specific type of conflict arising in the municipal service is a conflict of interest. No country in the world has immunity against negative phenomena related to conflicts of interest in the activities of municipal employees. All countries resort to certain actions in order to prevent and counteract situations of conflict of interest, and do so with varying degrees of success. The issues of preventing conflicts of interest in the municipal service of the Russian Federation have recently been discussed quite actively. Among the reasons for the growing attention to the settlement of situations around conflicts of interest, the following can be singled out: - increase in the level of public requirements for authorities; - actualization of the need for further institutional development of the municipal service (creation of an effective system of state and municipal management that meets the standards of a democratic rule of law state with a socially oriented market economy). The above indicates that there is a need for further continuation of the reform of the state and municipal service in Russia, the actual tasks of which are to analyze the real state, as well as identify areas for improving regulatory regulation The theoretical and methodological base of the research is represented by the scientific works of Russian and foreign specialists in the sphere of state and municipal management, organization theory, psychology and sociology of conflicts. In the work the authors applied a complex approach combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, system and logical analysis, statistical analysis, comparative analysis and other methods. Information basis of the research is the materials of statistical reporting of the Federal State Statistics Service.