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Local self-government in the North Caucasus: alterations in regional legislation as risk triggers

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  • Kazenin Konstantin

    (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy)

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One of the vectors of change in the North Caucasus in 2015 was the abolition of direct popular vote in the elections of heads of municipal formations. Very few of the municipal districts, urban districts, urban-type and rural settlements across the North Caucasus are still applying the system of forming the bodies of local self-government (LSG) that envisages that the head of a given administrative entity should be elected by direct popular vote. The most drastic changes in this respect occurred in 2015 in the Republic of Dagestan, where new legislation was adopted whereby a uniform method for forming the bodies of LSG was introduced for the entire region, when only the deputies of rural settlement and urban district assemblies are elected directly by popular vote. That region can serve as an illustration of how the ‘rolling back’ of direct popular elections to LSG is fraught with significant risks, and so cannot be regarded as a stabilizing factor.

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  • Kazenin Konstantin, 2016. "Local self-government in the North Caucasus: alterations in regional legislation as risk triggers," Published Papers ppaper-2016-241, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, revised 2016.
    • Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2016-241
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    Russian economy; North Caucasus;

    JEL classification:

    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
    • H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism

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