Institute of City Manager: Theoretical and Practical Problems
The article considers politico-legal viewpoints on particularity aspects of city manager institute initiated to a local authority structure in the course of wide-scale local government reform in Russia. The paper analyzes historical aspects of professional management model origination and considers specific conditions of its development in Russian legal framework. The legal status of hired manager of local administration is considered through the prism of statutable facilities. The article explores the problematic aspects of cooperation between city-manager and the other members of public authority. In particular, authors reveal mutual relations between the city-manager and the head of local administration, whose coexistence has controversial format. The article punctuates the politico-legal transformation of the local representative bodies in consequence of delegation organizational and technical powers to the head of local administration. The authors reveal the increasing centralist trends in cooperation between the regional and local levels of governance. The authors also emphasize the regional government impact on municipal authorities. City-manager institute is subject to review by aspect of local self-government constitutional right. The article marks out weaknesses in legislative formalization of the considering management model. The authors make an assumption about the absence of demand causes and inefficiency of the considering institute. The article indicates inability of overriding the material-security problem in municipalities. The authors point out today’s administrative situation which is could not be changed without sufficient reserve base.