LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND BUREAUCRACY: CONSTITUTIONAL VIEW ON CORRELATION AND MUTUAL INFLUENCE
The search of new models of bureaucracy, providing its commitment to constitutional values and the correspondence to the activating, partnership role of the state based on the necessity of recovery of the present crisis of the traditional relations of power. Peculiarities of post-socialist societies make impact on that process. Development of local self-government is often considered important factor of the administrative-bureaucratic system's democratization, of improvement of quality of the state. However the correlation of local government and bureaucracy cannot be reduced to a binary scheme. It is characterized like complex interaction and interpenetration. Identification of the constitutional aspects of the correlation, limits of the municipal authorities' bureaucratization and directions of formation of self-governance, representative bureaucracy acquires a special urgency in the conditions of the next municipal reform, the increasing trend of local self-government's nationalization.