THE CONCEPT OF IMPROVING THE THEORETICAL MODEL OF LOCAL REFERENDUMS AS A FORM OF DIRECT IMPLEMENTATION OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BY THE POPULATION
The article discusses some issues of organizing and holding a local referendum, and formulates problems. In particular, the problem of the low level of citizens ' activity in solving local issues through the implementation of forms of democracy, including local referendums, is noted. The author names a number of problems, such as the inconsistency of legislation, the excessive number of members of the initiative group for holding a referendum, the lack of responsibility of local self-government bodies for not calling a referendum, and others. The ways of solving the problems are proposed, and the concept of improving the theoretical model of local referendums is formed.