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Title

Implementation of the Institution of Public Lawmaking Initiative on the Level of Constituent Units of the Rusian Federation

Authors

Kuteynikov Dmitry Leonidovich,

PhD student of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of O.E. Kutafin Moscow State University. 9, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Str., Moscow, 123995.

E-mail: lebedev_va@bk.ru

Section

Constitution, state and sociiety

Issue

2/2015

Page

51—58

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340.114.3 + 340.13(470)

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Abstract

The article profoundly analyzes the legal norms of constituent units of the Russian Federation which regulate the mechanism of the implementation of the civil legislative initiative as a form of the institution of public lawmaking initiative. The article also illustrates actual questions and issues of civil legislative initiative and reviews the tendencies of its development. Examples of practical implementation of this mechanism of direct democracy based on the experience of constituent units of the Russian Federation are also submitted. The article individually presents the analysis of the existing in modern science suggestions to modernize the legislation of constituent units of the Russian Federation which regulate the implementation of civil legislative initiative.

Keywords

civil legislative initiative, direct democracy, direct exercise of power by people, public lawmaking initiative.

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